Web Designer vs Web Developer actually did you know, the difference?

If you need a website, you probably wondering which is the best solution a web designer or web developer. It's easy to get confused or mix them up to help build a fully functional and responsive website. To help you decide which one is more appropriate, you need to know the difference between web designers and developers. Do you looking for somebody to design and develop your business website? If you do, keep reading.

A web designer could only design your website as he is responsible for visual aesthetics and usability, such as colours, scheme, layout, and more. They are concern more with what we can see on our screens than the mechanics of each feature and how it is all working. So they use a website builder or some design program that will provide you with a fully functional website without any coding. So with this in mind, more web designers may also be familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript to work with templates in WordPress, which allows them to create websites without writing a single line of code.

A web developer also could provide you with a fully functional website. However, he will use coding such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScrip, PHP and other programming languages to bring your website to life. The coding could be split into two categories front-end and back-end. The front-end, know as the client-side, is the structure that will determine how the design of your website will be display by a designer. The back-end or server-side is responsible for managing data within the database and send it to the front-end to be displayed. As you already figure out, the job of a front-end developer shares the most overlap with a web designer. The front-end developer doesn't usually create mock-ups, selecting typography or colours. The designer generally provides those types of features, but it is the developer job to bring them to life.

To summarise what I just said. The difference between web designers and web developer is enormous. A web designer brings business ideas an on-screen reality and knows what the audience of a specific business will enjoy. A web developer will build the core structure, using coding languages to construct the logic and mechanics of the websites. Sometimes you will need both to get the best experience, especially a built from nothing. You will need a web developer to develop your website foundation and a web designer to look the way you and your users want.

Talk soon!

~ Stasi