If you want to build your own website – may it be for your company, your blog or just your ordinary homepage – you first have to know about the stages of web development.

For the specialist, web design is a creative process in which he can experiment on many things and fulfill some inner need to express art. But for the beginner, starting in web design can be downright confusing.

In web design, the “background” does not stay in the background. It will have a significant effect on the text or foreground.

The “tools” for web development does not refer to hardware such as modem and CD-Rom, although these are useful equipment. The tools that make web development a successful undertaking are the important software needed in setting up the website.

While uploading the files for the website, a person may decide that he will need to add icons. Some web hosts have a bank of icon images that are available to their clients. A person may use these icon images. But he runs the risk of choosing an icon that is already used (and associated) with another website. This is why some website owners decide to have their own icons.