PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNER

Open Source Web Design is a collection of free web designs submitted by the community.

Open Web Design was later sold to Shahvez Fazail (Shay). After Shay purchased the site, ads started appearing in designs. Designers disliked the ads because they weren't put in by the original designers, downloaders thought that ads were put there by designers, and the ad's HTML broke the validation on otherwise W3C valid designs. After someone posted about it in the forums, they were removed for an 'upgrade'.

After the split, for several months, OSWD went without a single update. This led to a majority of the remaining members to switch over to Open Web Design. Users that remained quickly grew annoyed with the continued lack of updates and design approvals. This led to creation of countless posts that expressed anger, annoyance, and various forms of disrespect. Due to this, Francis shut down the forums and removed all indications of when the site had last been updated.

A Web design program is a computer program used to create, edit, and update web pages and websites. The purpose of such a program is to make it easier for the designer to work with page and site elements through a graphical user interface that displays the desired results, typically in a WYSIWYG manner, while removing the need for the designer to have to work with the actual code that produces those results (which includes HTML or XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and others). Examples of a web design program are Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is a commercial program, and Amaya, which is an open source program.

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. Currently, "JavaScript" is an implementation of the ECMAScript standard.

JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to have a similar look to Java, but be easier for non-programmers to work with. The language is best known for its use in websites (as client-side JavaScript), but is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications.

Slicing is the process of converting a web layout (also known as a web template), perhaps from such graphics programs as Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paint Shop Pro, into HTML or XHTML and CSS. It is part of the client side coding process of creating a web page and/or web site.

Slicing is used in almost all cases where a graphic web layout is used for a website. Therefore, this is a very important skill that comes into play in the beginning stages. Slicing may range from simply breaking up a larger image for the header area of a website to a full scale, high graphic layout.

Slicing has a well known reputation to be able to be performed in several different ways, with several different approaches and coding styles. The modern method of slicing a layout includes an extensive use of CSS and semantic markup, as opposed to the aged process of using tables. Arguably, tables often take less time to recreate the web layout in a web page, but it has been proven that using the modern method of XHTML and CSS provides a more efficient foundation for further development and page load time.

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).

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 scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.

Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different to existing forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.