What is Web Design?

There was once a vocational student who was a street vendor at my place asking what is meant by web design, I tried to answer with the knowledge I have, Web design comes from the words web and design, the web is a collection of pages that contain various kinds of information either in the form of text, images and videos where all the pages are interconnected with each other in a unified whole, while design is a collection of creative ideas from imagination that are poured into plans and then formed into a display. So web design is the appearance / shape of an interconnected page formed from a collection of creative ideas so that it displays informative information with good and attractive visuals. People who create web designs are called web designers.

The development of Web design is very fast, now web design has entered the “DESIGN RESPONSIVE” era, meaning that the web design adjusts its design to the device screen size of the user / user, for example the display screen of a desktop / laptop user will be different in design from a user with a tablet or tablet screen. handphone but still on one page only here the web designer uses a technique or method so that the appearance will adjust the screen size of each user.

The programming languages ​​that are usually used for web design are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc., for CSS there are well-known frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation that develop responsive CSS Grid Layouts, for bootstrap you can find info on the official website here, while Foundation can find info here .

Both have their own advantages and disadvantages and I usually choose according to my own needs in order to realize the website design that I plan.

In planning the design of a website, what I usually pay attention to is the type of website, the navigation menu, the type of font and font size, the layout of the navigation menu, the color combination used, everyone of course has different tastes because indeed a design is relative. A says it’s good, not necessarily B says it’s good and vice versa, so just adjust it to your needs.

A website design must pay attention to or make visitors / users happy with the appearance of the website design that we create or the cool term “User Friendly” so as to make the old visitor / user feel at home on our website for a long time and want to continue to visit our website, of course.