Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. 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 optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all.[1] 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. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibilityguidelines.

Responsibilities of the job include:

• creating website designs
• producing sample sites
• meeting with clients to discuss requirements and/or project progress
• demonstrating and receiving feedback about draft sites
• keeping up to date with recent technological and software developments
• developing skills and expertise in appropriate software/programming languages such as HTML and Javascript
• creating products that are user-friendly, effective and appealing
• digital retouching and image editing
• working as part of a multidisciplinary team