The five components of Web Development

3. Visual Design

Visual Design encompasses the characteristics that make a web site usable, engaging, and memorable to the visitor.

Web design is a complex multi-disciplined group of tasks which range from technical considerations (such as choice of coding in which to implement a site), through the organizational requirements of a business (encompassing security and file access issues for instance) and on to the aesthetic requirements (such as the need to follow a set of style guides).

In implementing a successful website then we have a whole host of considerations and development stages to take on board. As freelance developers we need to wear many hats in succession. Some of them may not fit:-) but we can do the best we can to include them.

So it is too with visual design Visual design. This also has many facets and I have brought together some of the major one's below. One again this list is just small a sample of visual component considerations within a web site. I think I have though targeted the 'big players' and given a flavour of the whole process.