Hi quys I wonder if you can help me pls... I have to do a project on the www and was wondering if you can please tell me the difference between web design and web development?

Thanks in advance

The two kind of overlap. For me web design is creating the look of the page and the site usually in an image editing program like Photoshop. It would also include things like organizing how the information will be presented (Information Architecture), among others things that you would do before creating the look of the site.

Web development to me is writing the code and adding additional light prgramming to turn the design images into a working site.

I'll add appilcation development which is programming full systems like a shopping cart application that may get included on any number of sites.

I think many others would consider what I call application development as part of web development, but I also think if you asked 10 different people working as either a designer or developer you could easily get 10 different answers as to where the line is between design and development.

For example there are web designers who do all their work in a program like DreamWeaver and never touch a line of code that the program creates. There are designers who will write every line of code for a web page and web site they design by hand, but who will never write a line of programming code even for the simplest things. Then there are web designers who will create the design, write the code that builds the pages, and program some apllications as well.