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'''Web design''' is the skill of creating presentations of [[web content|content]] (usually [[hypertext]] or [[hypermedia]]) that is delivered to an [[end user (computer science)|end-user]] through the [[World Wide Web]], by way of a [[Web browser]] or other Web-enabled software like [[Internet television]] clients, [[microblogging]] clients and [[RSS reader]]s.

The intent of web design<ref>[http://www.usefulref.com/referencetopics/webdevelopment/Web_design.html Web Design Development Guide]</ref> is to create a web site—a collection of electronic files[[document]]s and [[Web application|application]]s that reside on a web [[server]]/[[servers]] and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text, [[Bitmap|bit-mapped images]] ([[Graphics Interchange Format|GIF]]s, [[JPEG]]s) and forms can be placed on the page using [[HTML]]/[[XHTML]]/[[XML]] tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as [[Adobe Flash]], [[QuickTime]], [[Java (software platform)|Java]] run-time environment, etc. [[Plug-ins]] are also embedded into web page by using [[HTML]]/[[XHTML]] tags.

Improvements in browsers' compliance with [[W3C]] standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of [[XHTML]]/[[XML]] in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets ([[CSS]]) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to [[web browser|browsers]]' ability to deliver a wide variety of [[Digitalcontent (media)|mediacontent]] and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing [[plug-ins]].

Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic: