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Hi,

I am new to DP and I have a question. I see threads asking for web template design and coding. I understand what template design is but I don't know what coding is. I obviously understand that it has to do with writing code but how is this related to designing a template?

thallewell

 

Coding is alot like describing what you think a cloud looks like to a blind person.

 

Ahhh... must be why there have been so few answers. I don't need to know how to do it. I just what to know what they mean when they say they want you to provide coding for the template.

 

Designing relates to the graphical aspect of your site. This can be done by a graphic artist who doesn't know anything about HTML coding. He just need to know about mixing the colors and the fonts. Coding means to translate the design, which may be just an image in PSD format, to an HTML coded page that when rendered by the browser recreates the artist's concept. You must know HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. to code. This two stages are commonly known as designing and developing.

 

So is a design useless without the code behind it?

 

Only if you don't know how to code, or get someone to code it.

Alot of designs start as images. Then coding is used to tell the browser what parts of the image go where, and what to do when certain things happen.

Coding is basicly telling the browser how to use a list of resources to produce a final product.