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Web Design
Below will is the drafting for parts of the Web Design Wiki page. Other teams members may be drafting other parts of the page in their sandboxes listed:
 * Nicola Witbooi
 * TLBateson
 * Cnurney9

Web design is a broad term covering many different skills and disciplines that are used in the production and maintenance of web pages. The different areas of web design include; web graphic design, interface design, authoring; including standardised code and proprietary software, user experience design and search engine optimisation. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all. Nicola Witbooi (talk) 19:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC) 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 mark up, but this is a grey area as this is also covered by web development.

Tools and Technologies
Web designers may use a variety of different tools depending on what part of the production process they are involved in. These tools are often updated by newer versions but the principals remain the same. Web graphic designers will normally use vector and raster graphics packages for creating web formatted imagery or design prototypes. Technologies used for creating the websites could include, standardised mark up which could be hand coded or WYSIWYG editing software, the quality of the code isn't guaranteed by ether approach. There is also proprietary software based on plug-ins that bypasses the client’s browsers version, these are often WYSIWYG but with the option of using the software’s scripting language. Search engine optimisation tools may be used to check search engine ranking and suggest improvements. Other tools web designers might use include mark up validates and other testing tools for usability and accessibility to ensure their web sites meet disability guidelines.