Why Graphic Design is Not Web Design
People often confuse web design with graphic design and mistakenly think the two are the same. Actually, there is a very big difference in terms of how the work is created. A graphic designer is most familiar with print media design. Magazines, books, brochures, signs and so forth. When they attempt to design a website, they start at the middle of the process which is the design layout with colors and images. Using layers, they are able to simulate navigation buttons that change color on mouseover, etc. Once their work is done, the better graphic designers pass it along to an actual web designer who must try his or her best to translate the design over to the web as best as possible. The process is exactly like someone giving you a magazine cover and saying “make this into a website”. Not the most efficient way of designing a website but most of the time acceptable results are yielded.