The difference between web design and web developer


by Graphic Design Cheltenham Gloucestershire - Date: 2007-03-08 - Word Count: 377 Share This!

The Web Developer

Having a website built can be a tricky and costly process, with so many companies offering a unique solution to your specific requirements and all having a different approach. Often what happens, is a web developer will design your site, which is great! It's got everything you want. Your logo, your company address and telephone number. It's also got an enquiry form that bounces emails around the universe with incomprehendable speed and cyber wizardry, you receive an order in your inbox, another copy goes to your dispatch department instructing them to dispatch 2 CP3O's. Luke Skywalker receives an auto response thanking him for the order....

Amazing! What more do you need? Maybe your happy with your fantastic hi-tech website, however, does the website really reflect your company image? Is the website consistent with your corporate id? Do the colours match your house style? In our experience probably not, this is where we can help.

The Web Designer

What we offer as a design agency is web design and by that we don't mean a printout, jpeg or psd file so the web developer can extract some digital ingredients to chop up and throw together to create a complex and mouth-watering algorithm! When we say web design we mean a website that matches your company image and respects your identity, things like this are important if you want to maintain consistency within your business sector.

The process is simple. We obtain your corporate identity to visualise your website. Once your happy with the visual we would then built a HTML web page and attached something called a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), a language used to descried how the html page should look. Things such as fonts, alignment, margins,and colour will reference the CSS, the styles will cascade throughout your website thus maintaining consistency. This would then be handed to the Developer so they can then develop the functionality.

One of the benefits about this process is that if you wanted to change the spacing and the colour of a particular heading styles, it's easy! Rather than having to change every single page that you've taken 18mths to create, one amend would be made to the CSS and this would change every instance of that heading throughout your whole site.

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