Are Web Development and Web Design The Same?

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Are Web Development and Web Design The Same?
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• At first glance web development and web
  design do sound very similar but in fact website
  developers and website designers have very
  different jobs to do. A website designer
  concentrates on the parts of a website that you
  can see the visual on-screen elements. This
  means that designers have a small but important
  influence on the end user experience. It is the
  designer who decides how the site looks and
  ensures that the site is visually appealing to
  the target demographic.

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• Website developers, on the other hand, are the
  people who take the design concepts from the
  designers and write the code that turns those
  abstract concepts into functioning, useable
  websites. This means that the web developer is
  ultimately responsible for ensuring positive user
  experiences because it is the developer that
  builds the functionality into the site while
  making it match the designers vision. The
  developer uses many tools to achieve this,
  perhaps the most powerful being the Magneto
  eCommerce platform.

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• If a website is going to reach its intended
  audience effectively both the team working on the
  web design and the team doing the Magneto web
  development must get their parts of the job
  right. Sub-par design will result in a website
  that is visually unappealing and will be
  ineffective in attracting customers or will
  create a negative first impression. Such
  ineffective design work can cost your business
  customers if they are put off your site and seek
  something more appealing elsewhere.

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• More seriously inadequate development work will
  result in a website that simply does not work
  well, with all of the obvious implications that
  has for a negative end user experience.
  Fortunately our Magneto web development team has
  the Magneto platform to assist them. Its
  versatile open-source nature allows our
  development team to embed whatever functionality
  our clients need into a site, so every site we
  develop can be tailored to a clients exact needs.

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• However we would not wish to give anyone the
  impression that one aspect of website building is
  more important than the other. To build an
  engaging and effective website we deploy the
  skills of both teams. Our designers visualise a
  website that looks good, attracts and engages
  potential customers and keeps them on the site
  for the longest time possible. Our designers also
  consider what functions need to be performed by
  the site if it is to achieve the clients aims.

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• At our web design agency in Lancashire our highly
  skilled team of experienced website designers
  create the layout of a site and consider the best
  way to include elements that will lead to
  conversion which is marketing jargon for
  elements that will help to convert visitors into
  customers. Our design team gives a great deal of
  attention to directing a site users attention to
  the parts of the screen that hold the information
  that the site owner wants them to pay attention
  to, and how to lead the site user through the
  website in an intuitive and straightforward way.

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• Our design team is also has to consider how to
  make the pages of the website to ensure that they
  look good on all devices. These are hyper
  connected times and so our design team must
  consider the fact that users could be viewing a
  website on a laptop, a mobile phone, a tablet,
  an internet enabled television or even a smart
  watch.

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• That presents a daunting variety of different
  shapes, sizes and resolutions of screen that must
  be kept in mind.

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• Any professional web designer will also make sure
  that they keep themselves up to date with the
  latest trends in web design. At eBusiness UK that
  is not just our designers job, it is their
  passion, selecting just the right colour
  palettes, working out what the most appropriate
  imagery is to use and which would be the most
  appropriate fonts.

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• It is this passion which drives them to be not
  just across the latest visual fashions, but at
  the forefront of them, so that they have an
  understanding not only of what people find
  attractive now, but what they are most likely to
  find appealing the next few years so that the
  websites they design have an element of
  future-proofing built in.

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• By contrast the our team working on Magneto web
  development have their work hidden behind the
  screen. Our Mangeto developers have the task of
  building and maintaining a websites core
  structure. They work on the platform directly to
  construct the architecture of the site and
  realise the design teams vision by building the
  elements of the website and making them work
  together.

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• In essence think of the development team as a
  building firm and the design team as the
  architects. The design team makes the plan, the
  development team takes the plan and makes it
  real. Website designers and website developers
  clearly have roles that are different but
  complimentary. Some people can fill both roles of
  course, but generally her at eBusiness UK we tend
  to find that it is better to have different
  people working in collaboration.

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• This approach works because it encourages
  discussion and when talented creative people with
  different skills and outlooks have the
  opportunity to bounce ideas off each other and
  get constructive feedback they will often end up
  with superior end result that far surpasses
  anything they would have come up with on their
  own.

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• Our web design agency in Lancashire delivers the
  full package to our clients. Our staff includes
  highly experienced web developers with skills in
  Magneto and many other eCommerce platforms and
  people with tremendous skills in web design.
  Blackburn, is a bit of an unsung hero of tech.
  The common misconception that all of the best
  minds somehow end up automatically migrating
  south to work for tech companies in London is
  tremendously out of date.

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• Once there could well have been an element of
  truth in that view but now with the North West
  being home to several world class universities
  there is a well-qualified talent pool here with
  all of the skills, creativity and enthusiasm we
  could ever need in our website designers and
  website developers. The once bright lights of the
  capital and South East are just not quite as
  attractive as they used to be.

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• Changes in the economy and vastly increased
  opportunities in the North West have lead many,
  if not most of those graduates to come to the
  conclusion that they are much better off if they
  stay in the North West. As a result, when we set
  out to recruit people to do some web design in
  Blackburn we can draw from that massive pool of
  talent.

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• So while some express surprise when they find the
  best web design in Blackburn, we have known for a
  long time that setting up our web design agency
  in Lancashire was the smartest move we could have
  made. From here we can recruit the best website
  developers and website designers without having
  to deal with the immense costs associated with
  office space in London and the South East.

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