You can do excellent designs, if you clearly understand the medium you’re using. After so many years of Internet and related web technologies , you’ll still come across people who possess very limited knowledge about web design. This segment of people includes some of the well-known business and cultural personalities. You’ll be surprised to find some design experts making up that segment.

It is very unfortunate incidents where people who least understand web design are at the helm of affairs. They have been assigned the responsibility of building websites and guiding fellow web designers and developers. They have been judging the quality of web design which must be left to us. They are actually calling the shots right from leading charges to investing money. As a result, you’ll find wrong people being assigned responsibilities for designing websites. So it is highly essential to understand various aspects of web design to develop better websites, better performance and well-informed end-users.

If you don’t understand web, it is very hard to understand web design. There are people who are responsible for explaining this concept to the web world. But the problem is either they are ill-informed themselves or make a compromise with their responsibilities and hold back whatever knowledge they have because of strong commercial reasons.

The news media is not immune from committing mistakes also. Actually, they are at the receiving end most of the time. Internet journalism is too obsessed with money and cares a fig for new, innovative ideas and thoughts. Everybody gets pressurized by their superiors and neglects their duty. Journalists who closely follow Web and have tremendous knowledge about it, expend most of their time writing about latest lucrative deals in the web world and quoting people involved in the deal.

Another segment of people who get it all wrong about web world in general and web design in particular are those involved in professional associations. Every year, various professional associations hold competitions to choose the best web design. However, it is a pity that most of the winners of these competitions understand web and web design as a medium for advertising, promotion and aggressive marketing. All they provide to their users are Flash and video content. For active users, there is gaming and all your experience about active web remains confined to ‘digg this page’ button.

Design critics who are experts in print design are not sure about web design. They are more involved in finding faults in others’ work than to appreciate beautiful pieces of web design. They feel that new generation web designers are not good at their work.

Web deign is not something limited to books only. It is also not like you are designing a poster. Websites can provide you fun-filled experience through games and videos. But this is not web design all about. The real definition of web design can be elaborated like this:

Web design is all about generating digital environments that make possible and persuade human involvement; represent and adjust to individual views and content and keep updating with poise over time while always maintaining their true identity.

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