Web design issues
Web design is the layout of web pages, websites and web applications using HTML, CSS, images, and other media.
Following are some disagreements between techniques of web designs and conflicting goals.
Fixed and Liquid Layout
Today webs are designed by graphic artists. Many of these web designers have knowledge in Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator and have no control over the size of the browser window and the size and characteristics of available fonts and end up with a fixed layout. While other designers disagree and propose a liquid layout, where the size of the Web page adjusts itself and create attractive web design based on the size of the browser window.
Lack of teamwork
The initial years of the web lacked teamwork between web designs and customer transactions, big advertising campaigns, social networking, intranets and extranets. Though there is some amount of collaboration today many web pages do not work together with larger projects, resulting in compromise between departments, and not the best use of web pages.
Aesthetics against work
Today web designing has gone professional and most web designers are graphic artists. They pay more attention to how a page looks. Some may rely more on advertising than search engines to attract visitors to the site. While search engine optimization (SEO) or search engine consultants give importance to the technical and the content side and not to looks. As a result, the designers and SEOs often end up arguing on the issue. Finding a solution with the right mix of aesthetics and the technical and text side is needed to address the issue.
Adobe Flash
Is a great graphics animation and application development program. It is used to create and transport dynamic content through sound and video, and interactive applications over the web via the browser. Flash is much more restrictive than the HTML format. Many graphic artists use Flash because it gives them exact control over every part of the design. There are many sites which sacrifice HTML for Flash. While some use a combination of both. Flash detractors claim that Flash websites tend to be poorly designed, and often use confusing and non-standard user-interfaces design.
CSS versus tables
Tables were used to lay out a Web page when Netscape Navigator 4 influenced the browser market. Navigator 4 didn't support CSS. When Internet Explorer took control of the market, designers turned towards CSS as an alternate way of designing the web page. Today, most Web browsers support CSS. However, one major issue against CSS is that by using it, control is essentially abandoned as each browser has its own characteristics which result in a slightly different page display. Today browsers have overcome this and have made many different CSS layouts possible.