Web design in simple terms consist of creating a website for your company, business, or organization. A website consist of a domain name (www.yourcompanyname.com), hosting (the enormous computer that will take on the task of showing your website to visitors), and content (text, images, forms, audio, video, etc...). The purpose for a website is to offer your target audiance a place on the web to visit you, see what your about, find out how to get in touch with you, order a product or service, or make a donation to your cause.
That is as simple as you can get, if your a bit more technical you can read wikipedia's definition.
Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).
The intent of web design is to create a web site -- a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text and images can be placed on the page using tags. Displaying more complex media requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.
Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.
Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.
Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master/programmer) manually updates the page.
Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on end-user’s input/interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side or server-side scripting languages. Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
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