Website design is an intricate part of the Internet because it is what constructs its body. In the early days when people hardly understood it to the present when HTML and other languages are now being taught to people as early as grade school students. Whilst web technology is still improving as we speak, the fundamentals of website design and its undeniable importance will never be extinguished.

In a nut-shell, website design is the all-important process of conceptualizing, planning, modeling, and creating what is known as the main delivery vessel of media content via the Internet, which takes form due to the use of markup languages and other technologies. The ensuing product is then made appropriate for conversion and display by a web browser or other such software.

The delivery of content with website design entails a number of implementations like markup languages (HTML, XHTML, XML), plug-ins (Flash, QuickTime Java), and so on. They are employed to encode and lay out different forms of media like text, images, videos, Flash, among others into a comprehensible medium for viewing.

The web pages that we search through everyday are typical results of web design. The current advancements on website design consist of those of web browsers' compliance with W3C standards, which spurred on the use of XHTML and XML in correlation to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), that has revolutionized the customization of web layouts.

This and many other enhancements have made website design available to web users. Nowadays, any individual could be a website owner with the right tools and the appropriate information. Web pages could be either static, meaning they won't change form unless altered physically or dynamic which changes form and content depending on input and interaction, in addition to changes in environment; which includes that of the user, time, changes in database, etc. Dynamic sites adapt to input on the client side which makes it more user-friendly on the developmental side of things.

They make use of client-side scripting languages like JavaScript, Jscript, Actionscript and others and can be seen on the server side in the form of scripts like PHP, ASP, JSP and Python. You can easily identify these kinds of dynamic sites all over the internet.

The internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee back in August 1991 published what was to be later referred to as a website. He was the very first person to make use of the primary function of the internet (email, Usenet, BBS) and combine it with hypertext. Hypertext was not something new but was limited to browsing within a single computer. And so began the advent of Hypertext Transfer Markup Language, or HTML, and the revolution of information and the way it was distributed. The internet was termed the information super highway and thus the internet age and a radical improvement in the way in which information was transferred.

Presently, website design has become a crucial part of any devoted computer user's expertise. As the web continues changing, so will the various strategies implemented into the creation of web pages, constantly changing the way in which information is dispersed around the world.