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Website design is the process of planning and creating websites that can be read/viewed by web browsers

Website design (also known as web design) is the process planning, designing, and creating a websites. This term refers to how they are layed out and viewed by the user.

Web design includes:

Selecting typefaces, and colours that fit the brand

The web design will incorporate elements of the brand - such as colour scheme and fonts.

Deciding the presentation of the page, and where certain elements go

This makes sure that the user of the website will know where to look for things.

Adding the navigation, and choosing where it goes and how it works

To navigate round the website, the design often includes navigation so the user can navigate around.

Choosing how the website works, eg. interactive areas of the site

The design also chooses how the website will work, often through interactive areas.

The terms web design and web development are used interchangeably. They are both used to mean how the website is coded - eg. frontend in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or backend in PHP or SQL. They are also used to mean how the website looks.

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What is the standard width for a website in pixels?

What is the standard width for a website in pixels or where are statistics?
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Fixed width vs dynamic width

I've noticed more and more sites have gone to a fixed-width layout, where resizing the browser window just causes scrollbars to appear, as opposed to a flexible layout, where resizing the browser causes the components of the page to "scrunch"…
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Music on a web page?

When is it suitable to use background music on a web site? Do users like this?
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What is the typical example of old school website design?

I want to build a website for a retro thing that was popular in the mid 90s (beginning of the commercial internet). So I want use old designs that was very popular at that time. The first thing that comes to my mind was those "under construction"…
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What is the 'most common' width and height that websites are being designed for these days?

I'm working on a group project and trying to get my colleagues to submit a drawing regarding their vision for an online application; this application will be viewed through a PC. Although I suspect there is not an industry standard, I am certatin…
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Cheaper alternatives to 99Designs.com (outsource CSS design)

I'm designing my own website as a side project and I want the site to look professional. (Read, not designed by a programmer.) I don't mind spending a little money to have a professional do it, but design sites like 99designs.com cost way to much.…
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How to ensure a web designer is selling you an original design

If I get the web-design done by someone else, how can I ensure he is not simply passing me some recycled work or blatantly copying/pasting somebody's (or his own) work? There really is no way to make sure, right? So how can I ask a web-designer…
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Design -> Crowdsourcing or hire a pro?

I'm a web dev since a decade now, but my design skills are... well, are the designs skills of a programmer! Anyway, I've been working on a personal project for some time now and I would like some advice on what I should do with the design of the…
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Any tool to sketch layout?

Is there any kind of tool to sketch the layout of website roughly? For example just to draw a basic sketch of the design to show others? Thanks
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How much should a newbie charge a client for web design work?

I was asked to design a website for a client. Personally, I'd work for free since I'm just in it for the experience of working with a client but they insist on paying me so I will get an idea as to how freelancing works and for them to know how much…
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What should I keep in mind when looking for a designer?

I know there's not a cut-and-dried answer to questions like these, but there might be some guidelines I should be thinking of and it may help others as well. The case is as following: I run a wiki community with a few thousand articles, and I may…
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Flash vs JS+css+html -- Website

So I'm working on a fairly large project, it's a website that will service about 7000 customers, the website gets about 2500 hits per day, and will be packed as a server and re-sold as a total solution to dozens of other organizations that are in…
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Green Website Design

This is kindove a strange question, but... There was a site called Blackle ( http://www.blackle.com/) which "claimed" to save energy by using a black background (it doesn't: see here:…
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Confirm (enter twice) pw and email at registration - good idea?

Many sites seem to require that their users enter their email and password twice during the registration process. How useful is it really? It seems it could be a pain in the neck for many users, for limited gains, no? Thanks, JDelage
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best way of getting the dimension of a selection in photoshop

When converting psd to (x)html, there's this time that you want to get the height/width of a particular selection. For example, you have an item which is to be converted as
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