Web design and web development are two terms that are being used by many people and are interchangeable. However, in reality, these two terms have different meanings. If you are looking for a new job or someone is building your website, you need to know the difference.

|  What is web design?

• If you have ever seen and looked through a website, as you can see it is an interface designed by a designer on a photoshop application and written by a dev to create a website interface based on the designer's blueprint.
• Therefore, web design is about creating an interface through the layout of colors and adjusting the layout appropriately to attract customers' eyes.

|  What is web development?

• Web development is briefly understood as dev from HTML, CSS, and Javascript, .... to bring the designer's ideas into a complete interface.
• Web development today is divided into 2 main components "front-end" and "back-end". The backend is to process data from the database in java, C++, C#,... And the front-end is to write and create the interface from the lines of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, .. from the design of the user. design and from back-end data to create a complete website.

 

 

|  What it takes to have a beautiful and professional website

• Nowadays, in addition to website design and website development, there are general terms to express its importance, which are UI and UX. UI is creating user interface and UX is concerned with user experience, both have a supportive relationship to help customers feel like and stay on the site longer.
• If a UI doesn't show what the icons on the website mean, it's a bad UI, just as if a web page the user doesn't know what to do in it, it's a bad UX. So UI makes customers happy when looking at the interface of the website and UX makes customers feel easy to operate the website and stay on the website longer instead of entering less than 30 seconds and then exiting. outside.
• Since having UI and UX, both designers and devs work together more easily and thereby make the website more complete.

 

• A web designer may know about HTML and CSS and a web developer may also know about some photoshop tools but that doesn't mean the two are interchangeable as a web designer specializes in beauty for the website, and web developers, through those interfaces, put on the website through the lines of HTML and CSS code.