Difference between webdesign and web development

[maneetpuri]

Intelligent question because I have seen many use the terms interchangeably, without even noticing the thick line of difference between them. Web design is the aspect that has to do with the visualization part (Look&Feel) or in other words how a user interacts with your website. A web designer utilizes all the design principles to make sure a website appeals to the visitor in the best possible way. His operations includes designing shape and style of drop down menu and main navigation graphics, website background design and clolor and many more whereas, a web development process is about connect the design with the database itself. Web development is a different phenomenon that deals with the back-end operations of a website or how a website functions like how to get user input and where to save it in database, where and when to display content in different pages and sections of the website and so on.

Developers works using programming languages(PHP,ASP, .Net etc) and databases like (oracle, sql, MySql etc)

Designers works using designing tools like photoshop, illustrator, coral draw etc.