For the uninitiated, web designing is the task of designing web presentations which are content rich and making them available on the Web so that everyone can access them freely. Other than designing web pages and websites, web designing also comprises web applications and multimedia on the web.

Now, the process of web designing is an all comprehensive activity that includes specialization of various disciplines which include animation, design, marketing, search engine optimization, human-computer interaction, typography, photography and various others as well. The process of designing a website is multifaceted, and also involves the use of different kinds of technologies all of which go into the making of a website.

Firstly, all websites are written in a certain language which, in technical terms is called the markup language. This is called Hyper Text Manual Language or HTML as it is more commonly known. A markup language is basically a set of codes that act as annotations to text. These codes describe the required formatting that the text might need.  In the beginning, the available HTML was very basic, but with time, more and more complex types of HTML have been developed. Other than a markup language web designing also needs Style Sheet languages that include CSS and XSL. Web designing also makes use of client side scripting and server style scripting, database and multimedia technologies as well. Client-side scripting includes scripts like Java Script while server scripting to PHP, ASP, etc. Multimedia includes software like Flash and Silverlight.

Accordingly, web pages can be static or dynamic. Dynamic pages or websites are always changing due to a variety of factors like actions on the end of the user and so on. Static pages can always be programmed to change into dynamic pages.