I learnt recently that most people often use the terms web design and web development interchangeably. So today I'm going to show you guys how Web design is different from web development.
There are two primary jobs involved in creating a website: the web designer and web developer, who often work closely together on a website. The web designers are responsible for the visual aspect, which includes the layout, coloring and typography of a web page. Web designers will also have a working knowledge of markup languages such as HTML and CSS, although the extent of their knowledge will differ from one web designer to another. Particularly in smaller organizations, one person will need the necessary skills for designing and programming the full web page, while larger organizations may have a web designer responsible for the visual aspect alone.

WEB DESIGN:
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 markup. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardized code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and search engine optimization.

Tools and technologies:
Web designers use a variety of different tools depending on what part of the production process they are involved in. These tools are updated over time by newer standards and software but the principles behind them remain the same. Web designers use both vector and raster graphics editors to create web-formatted imagery or design prototypes. Technologies used to create websites include W3C standards like HTML and CSS, which can be hand-coded or generated by WYSIWYG editing software. Other tools web designers might use include mark up validators and other testing tools for usability and accessibility to ensure their websites meet web accessibility guidelines.

Skills and techniques:
1] Marketing and communication design
2] User experience design and interactive design(UX/UI)
3] Motion graphics
4] Quality of code
5] Responsive web design (RWD)
6] Adaptive web design (AWD)
7] Progressive enhancement etc

Software:
*Adobe Photoshop
*Adobe Illustrator
*Sketch (software)
*Affinity Designer
*Inkscape

Occupations:
1] Graphic designers to create visuals for the site such as logos, layouts and buttons
2] Internet marketing specialists to help maintain web presence through strategic solutions on targeting viewers to the site, by using marketing and promotional techniques on the internet
3] SEO writers to research and recommend the correct words to be incorporated into a particular website and make the website more accessible and found on numerous search engines
4] Internet copywriter to create the written content of the page to appeal to the targeted viewers of the site
5] User experience (UX) designer incorporates aspects of user-focused design considerations which include information architecture, user-centered design, user testing, interaction design, and occasionally visual design.



WEB DEVELOPMENT:
Among Web professionals, "Web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building Web sites: writing markup and coding. Web development may use content management systems (CMS) to make content changes easier and available with basic technical skills.
There are three kinds of Web developer specialization: front-end developer, back-end developer, and full-stack developer. Front-end developers are responsible for behavior and visuals that run in the user browser, while back-end developers deal with the servers.
There are many open source tools for Web development such as BerkeleyDB, GlassFish, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and Perl/Plack.

Skill Required:
[1]HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
[2]Server/client side architecture like all or some of the above mentioned.
[3]Programming/Coding/Scripting in one of the many server-side languages or frameworks (e.g., Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, CFML - ColdFusion, Java
[4]ASP, ASP.NET, Node.js)
[5]Ability to utilize a database
[6]Creating single page application with use of front-end tools such as EmberJS, ReactJS or AngularJS

In conclusion Web Design has to do with the visual aspect of a website or web app (UI/UX) while web development has to do with both the front and server side of a website/web app.

Thank You Nairalanders!.

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Thank you for explaining the difference. As I understand it, web design, on the one hand, is more fundamental because it deals with the general principles on which sites are built, rather than the complex systems available in a content management system.
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