A general used term to describe creating a web page and any of the processes involved is known as Web design. It mainly refers to the building of a web page from beginning to end. The presentation of information with the use of hyperlinks linked together with different information consists of a myriad of pages. Web pages on the Internet consist of two basic aspects. Firstly is the overall presentation which is used for interaction by the user(s), and secondly is the background which includes information that can be read by the non-human or machine browsers.
There is a basic language which is used to tell the browser exactly how the layout and presentation of the page is supposed to look, this is known as a mark up language and is called Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML. There is also extensible Hyper Text Markup Language. This is another version of HTML the only difference is that this version is a more strict one. The use of the XHTML or HTML enables the web designer to tell the browser what the appearance of the web page should be.
Since a few years ago, there was an aim to separate the basic structure of a web page using the HTML code. This was done using the Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS, from a visual perspective of the web site. There were many benefits to using this approach for both short term and long term and has become more popular with the passage of time. Looking at it from a technical perspective, web design can be a difficult task, in comparison to the print media. The HTML code has many different facets. First and foremost not all browsers interpret the HTML code based on the standards set by the W3 (World Wide Web Consortium).
