Website Development

Web development refers in general to the tasks associated with developing websites for hosting. The web development process includes web design, web content development, client-side/server-side scripting and network security configuration, among other tasks.

In a broader sense, web development includes all the actions, updates, and operations required to build, maintain and manage a website to ensure its performance, user experience, and speed are optimal.

It might also, but not necessarily, encompasses all those strategic actions needed to ensure its proper ranking on search engine results. Usually, those tasks relate to a different specialization, namely search engine optimization (SEO) Web development is also known as website development, while the professionals that maintain a website are called web developers.

Website Design

Web design include many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardized code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and search engine optimization.The term "web design" is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing markup. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating markup then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.