Zaraki KenpachiI still remember during my early stages when I was learning web development, multiples of the time I found myself confused about the differences between web design & development. For example, what is a web design company? What is involved in working with a web development company? Maxsoft web designing and development the same? Do these terms have the same meaning?
In simple words, the answer is no. Both services are completely different from each other. But let’s dig into the different roles and methodologies of both a web designer and developer.
Web design
Think this way that a web designer is a person who transforms an idea, or an imagination, into a visually appealing design. Web designers use the layout to build a user-friendly experience throughout the complete website. Their job is to design the website’s look and feel, just like an architect creates a plan or design of your house, which is further utilized to start building it. Similarly, the same goes for the web designer who builds and models the layout of your website so that web developers can start developing it.
Although being a Web designer is the most underrated job, they actually have a very difficult role. While designing a website, they need to integrate the user-friendly experience possible and create an environment to attract to your website. In addition, web designers have to transform the image clients’ imagination from writing into an attractive design and usable interface to catch the user’s attention.
Without the proper design, a website can never attract the customer, especially in the early stage of the business. Nowadays, web designers are treated and paid at the same level as web developers. However, without the best user experience and design, web development can never be truly liked by the user.
Web designing is not an easy job. First, you have to build a complete library of the strategies and techniques in your mind. It is not like you create the whole project’s perfect design after hearing the client’s ideas or creating the complete specification with features immediately.
These are the major roles of web designers.
You should start with the scope of the project and also focus on the purpose of the website. So, roughly prepare to envision the designs in your mind, and you can start with a simple sketch or draft of the design. While sketching, you can move towards wireframes and mock-ups before going towards the final design. Keep one thing in your mind: it’s not like you can build one design for every website. Every client has its requirements, so your approach will be different if you are making a WordPress web design. Meanwhile, if you are doing eCommerce website designing, then methods and strategies would be different. Usually, the professional web designer prefers the component-based approach with the pixel-perfect layout for every single page, icons, banners, logos, and other intricate features.
- You can use software tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or Framer to design the final layout of your website.
- Must have expertise in graphic designing and logo designing
- Have a great user experience feel, utilize the simplest approach possible to achieve the desired design. It includes the layout, buttons, banners, sliders, images, and the other format resources of the website.
- Web designers should be updated with the latest design trends. Plus, It’s important to keep the design consistent and follow the most popular design recommended by giant web sharks, such as Google and Facebook.
- For the Web designers, branding, colour palettes to be used, and the typography and readability of the website is the most important task.
Web development
A web developer is a person who turns the designs into a live and fully functional website. Web developers use various languages and software tools to make the website fully functional. Likewise, web developers are further divided into two sub-categories; front-end developers and back-end developers.
The job of the front-end developers is the integration between both web designers’ design and back-end developer’s back-end. So, front-end developers must know both back-end and designing. In other words, the front-end developer is the person who develops the interface according to the provided layout of the designer.
These are the major roles of web developers.
To become a Front-end developer, you should learn three main languages.
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- JavaScript (JS)
With the knowledge of the languages mentioned above, a developer can easily create a full-fledged website.
Back-end developers are those who deal with the control of the server data and user requests. Back-end services are necessary if you want a dynamic website. For example, users can make a quote and submit it into a form with personal details, account creation, login, signup, add to cart, payment methods, and much more.
If the website requires data to be saved, then the database connection is necessary. In simple words, the Database connections are made possible via a direct connection from the server. Therefore, the back-end developer must have hands-on practice on the server languages such as PHP, ASP.NET, and database languages such as SQL and MySQL.
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