Website Design understanding

Web design is the process of designing a web site. Web design is a combination of processes like conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution. We can say these are the phases of the web design. Web design is a graphical way to deliver content via internet in combination with Web browser under stable language such as HTML. The objective of web design is to create a web site, a collection of pages that reside on a web servers and present content and interactive features to the end user in form of Web pages.
Web design is made from different elements like text, bitmap images, forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Now days Web design combines with more complex media such as animations, videos, sounds which requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment.
Web design can be classified as static or dynamic.
Static page content doesn’t change on every request unless not edited by human.
Dynamic page content depending on the user’s input. So with the help of dynamic page we can make our website interactive.
Good Features of Web Design
Text
Text should be good enough to read.
An image doesn’t interrupt Text.
Page loading Time
Size of page should not be exceeding more the 100KB so pages can download quickly.
Navigation Structure
Navigation is clear and in hierarchy manner so user can easily navigate website.
Graphics
Site should not be too much graphics heavy. This will increase site download time.
Links
Link colors should coordinate with page colors
Links are underlined so they are instantly clear to the visitor

Browser independent
Website must be browser independent. It looks same in any browser.
User friendliness
Web design should be user friendly so user can easily navigate through whole website.
Search engine friendliness
Web Designs should be search engine friendly so it can be optimized for high search engine rankings.
Types of website design
Content Sites
Custom website design
E-Commerce website design
Community website design
Educational and reference sites
Corporate and government website design
Search and web portals website design