What is Web Development vs. Web Design Web Development to Web Design is similar what a nurse is to a doctor. Web developers are well versed in pretty much all aspects of the web and their functionality, need for performance and more complex structures including logic.
A web designer is simply a designer that specializes in creating artwork for websites. Some may know how to create a website but have limited knowledge in the back end and inner workings of a website.
Many small businesses and individuals do not understand the importance of a well developed website especially if you are trying to monetize it. The look of a website accounts for only a small part of a well performing website. There many factors that you have to consider when you are trying to become successful. The speed, the logic, the content, navigation, database, coding, and several more.
Do you know what made Google, Ebay, Amazon and all the other major websites so successful? It is simply the development and deployment. These websites are consistently tweaked, updated, modified and restructured for maximum optimization and user functionality. You will notice that every couple of weeks if you log into facebook, myspace, aol, yahoo, etc. there are new features or you will see a new look. Majority of the time it is that the developers have optimized the sites to work better and more sufficient.
A lot of businesses think just to have a website online will do the trick but it doesn't. If you want your business to be online and successful you have to treated almost as a separate entity. Also never forget that web users are constantly exposed to different types of sites, so if you create a mediocre site they will compare it to another that may perform much better. On the web it is also easy to go from one place to another. So you want to make sure you can capture your user right of the back.
So be sure you really understand what it takes to have a GOOD website. It is not only the look but the overall development of it.
