We get better design when we understand our medium. It’s hard to understand web design and development when you don’t understand the web.

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Basic Web Architecture

Web Architecture focuses on the foundation technologies and principles which sustain the Web, including URIs and HTTP.

The web is a two-tiered architecture;

• A web browser displays information content (Runs on the client),
• and a web server that transfers information to the client (Runs on the server).

The client and server communicate using the http protocol.

A Basic web architecture covers the following;

• Web Client
• Web Server
• Web Proxy
• Gateways
• HTTP
• URI (Universal Resource Identifier)
• Client-side Scripting
• Server-side Scripting
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript/jQuery
• AJAX
• XML
• JSON
• Database Server
• PHP & MYSQL

Summary

To be a successful web Designer or Web developer, one has to be familiar with the web architecture and its components in general.