Web-design is a visual design of Web pages. It plays the same role for the site as print design and layout of the printings. Often "web design" is the web development in common, ie the creation of the site, structure design etc.

In fact, at present the term "web design" understood exactly as the structure design, the conceptual integrity of the Internet resource, the ease of online resources for users.

Important part in recent years has been designing web sites in such a way as to meet the standards of W3C, which ensures the availability of content and sites for people with disabilities, as well as for users of portable devices. Common name for the latter - usability.

A big part of web site developement is also a search engine optimization.

Thus visual used to solve the most diverse tasks such as increasing sales, building trust, creating a certain image, and others.