Website design involves the conception, modeling and execution of internet technologies, such as HTML, CSS, PHP and JAVA, so that the design can then be displayed within a web browser.

The goal of a web site designer is to communicate the desired message (including interactive multimedia features) to the end users. A typical website consists of multiple electronic files that resides on a web server and are served to the end users browser upon request. Website components like text, forms and images are put into place using HTML, XHTML and XML. Flash, QuickTime and Java plug-ins are often required to include multimedia technologies (video, sound, animation) on the page.

Designers can now widely use XHTML, XML and CSS (Cascading style sheets) to position elements on a website. This has mainly been due to the widespread acceptance of WC3 standards by browsers. The latest standards and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.

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