As a novice web designer this question probably looms in your head. What are the ways to be a better web designer? Mastering the visual design, usability, utilization, and coding are some of the most important issues to have an effective design implementation of web site. Aside from those issues, however, knowing the basic details is an important element of essential web design; either you are just starting to work as web designer or a professional one.

"Words can't describe me", is how Adnan Patrawala, 16 yr old teenager from Mumbai, India had described himself on his Orkut profile. However, his kidnappers and murderers got to know a little more of him and ensnared him into a trap which ultimately led to the death of the young boy. This is perhaps an extreme example of the social impact of these social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook, Myspace and Friendster on today's youth.

The difference between a web designer and a web developer has inspired much debate and confusion. This confusion, undoubtedly, is not unfounded. Not only are the terms easily interchangeable with each other but they also seem to have the same practitioners. Because it is always best to know both worlds, web designers eventually do venture out into web development, and web developers to web design.

Design, in a general and large scale, is the creation of visually stimulating pieces or areas incorporating an established. Design employs shape, lines, color, and texture to be able to complete its intent. The creation of a design accessible through the use of the Internet is then called Web Design; also known as as web publishing, and web development, and a internet publishing.

We all know perfectly well it is almost impossible to separate the best design from a whole bunch of good designs. A person's needs and expectations are deciding factors in determining exactly which the best design is. And we all have different needs and expectations.

While the above is true, it also always important to keep in mind that there are already established, agreed-upon characteristics a website must possess to consider it good.

Before finally putting up a web page and making it available to Internet users, one must ask the intent of the web page to be put up. More than a source of information, a website can solicit interest, intrigue, and admiration from viewers. So it is of utmost priority that one must consider the following in designing a web page.

What is it about?

Obviously, there will be no web page without anything to put into it.

Imagine a university bulletin board. Post one teaser before class and you are sure never to find it again forty-five minutes later.

Buried, already, in a sea of more attention-grabbing student advertisements, your message, read only by roughly five students, will never stick to anyone's mind.

Imagine this situation and magnify it one million times and one million more teasers, one million more messages, and one million more people.