What is Web design?

Everything about your website - including the content, the way it looks, and the way it works - is determined by the website design. Web design is a process of conceptualizing, planning, and building a collection of electronic files that determine the layout, colors, text styles, structure, graphics, images, and use of interactive features that deliver pages to your site visitors. Professional Web design helps to make your business appear credible online.

When you're ready to build a website, you have several options. If you are not familiar with HTML programming language and Web design applications, there are a number of other options for creating your Web design:

1. Hire a professional website design expert to create and build a unique Web site.
2. Create your own website design using off-the-shelf software such as FrontPage® or Dreamweaver®. (These software packages do require technical expertise.)
3. Use online website design tools with pre-set and/or customizable Web design templates to customize with your company colors, graphics and text.