Web design is the design or designing of a Web page, Website or Web application. The term generally refers to the graphical side of Web development using images, CSS and XHTML.

Web Development

Web development is a broad term that incorporates all areas of developing a Web site for the World Wide Web. This includes:

the page's graphical web design

backend programming

web server administration

database interaction

testing

deployment with special attention paid to search engine optimization.

In larger businesses and organisations, web development teams can consist of hundreds of people, while smaller web sites may only include a single person.