web design vs graphic design

[webcreations]

What is the difference between web design and graphic design?

[maxi007]

web design is coding front-end part graphic design is manupulating images/ graphics

[ShaliniVerma]

Web designing means an art of designing webpages and websites while Graphic Designing focuses on mainly designing attractive layouts for the web.

[rehal]

Graphic Design really focus on how to design graphically pleasing layouts. You would learn about color theory, typefaces, the relationship between design elements when placed on a page and just generally how to make things, either printed or displayed in another way, look appealing.


Web Design would require many of the skills of a good graphic designer but also, you'd need to learn how to write web pages. You'd probably start by learning HTML which is the scripting language web pages are made up of. You'd move on to current and updated languages like XML and cascading style sheets.