Web design is the art, discipline and skills in maintenance of websites. It is the proficiency of creating content, presentations using hypertext or hypermedia that are sent to an end user through world wide web using web enabled software, web browser. There are various areas of web design comprising of interface design, web graphic design using different software usually encompassing processes relating to the design from client end, based on writing markup for the designing the website. Designers should have awareness of using creative markup to keep pace with web accessibility guidelines comprising of proprietary software, standardized code, web graphic designs and many other aspects. Website should keep the user busy searching for more with creative designs, somber colors, fonts, content, layout and many other aspects. Maintaining a checklist is also very important while designing a good website.

The following features are the skeleton of a good website:
1. Selecting Domain Names: Making the domain unique is the most important step in website design, it should be easy to type including characters, length, spelling, should be easy for the users to search without difficulty, keeping the domain name short and simple. Domain name should showcase the type of work the client is involved in.
2. Hosting the Web: it involves bandwidth, disk space, testing performance using specific tools, CPU usage, Domain name e-mail Id’s.
3. Web development platform: PHP, mySQL, XAMPP, decide the performance of the website before going live, it is easy and quick to navigate when the website is live.
4. Tools: Only Adobe and Microsoft does not decide the website performance there are many other free products which does the same job without high price.
4. Images: Dullness/ Opacity in images is a major issue which might turn the website into a disaster.
5. Logo: Logo is the most significant part of the website; it is the most powerful and has visibility of the company’s brand, business and it also safeguards the brand of the Company. It is specially designed to attract users and create responsive attention by the user.
6. Content Writing: Content is the King, ensuring the content is free from grammatical errors, spelling mistakes. Good content is keeping it simple and relative to the website and services of the client, adding audio, video, graphics and relative images is of utmost importance. It should have elements that say what you want to say in simple language to maintain the quality of the website to keep users reading it till the end than hitting the back button and turn to other sites.
7. Colors: website should have subtle colors influencing people to keep them engaged on the website, using contrast colors suiting the type of client’s service, the website should be designed with specific colors suitable for the specific websites, such as red for hot, passion, blue for cold, calm, white for purity, peace, black for bold, evil or powerful. Colors showcase the moods, feelings and helps in keeping the user stay on the website for a longer time.
8. Layout: keep the layout clean and simple is the sound principle followed by good designers, do not cram the website with innumerable visuals, images, colors, decorative fonts, disproportionate sizes and many more features to keep in mind while designing different types of websites wanting different designs. To maintain a long term relationship with the clients we have to follow certain strict rules to make people come to you again and again for good and responsive websites.