the only difference for me when it comes to the two area of designs, is that web design has to function, the web design has to work hand in hand with the user.

cheers

Great giveaway. I thik that the colours really make a difference.

Web design: People must go to it to see it,
Graphic Design: People must be given it to see it.

Graphicdesign is only one prat of webdesign. Webdesign isn't only designing a website, it also covers the tecnical aspects like programming and hosting.

graphic design encompasses all things in the print world.

The biggest difference is the user situation.

graphic design is completely yours from the beginning to the end... when printed cannot be changed. it's like a river in its riverbed - over control. but when it reaches the sea it's simmilar to web design... you loose a great part of your control. it's constanly changed and shaped by users and dynamic content. but well... it's still the same water ;)

There is no difference.

Graphic Design is everything you see that has been created and printed. (ads, magazines, books, newspaper layouts, logos, brochures, CD covers, posters, illustraions).

Web design includes only the world of the web: everything that makes a website not only a heap of words.

the biggest difference between web an graphic design is the way it is made - one is visual from a start the other is verbal from s start and only at the end - visual.

The main difference is that you have to learn HTML etc as a web designer, while applying graphic designing techniques.

Great giveaway!

In the web design world you must follow some rules to make the website work. So you need to make a design that can go toghether with the code, that it's easy to understand by users.

The biggest Difference is the Way to do it.
Graphical Design is finishing with a good looking Result.
But if you make a Webdesign, you have to write valid Code, make it Crossbrowser Compatible, and maybe have to add Javascript or PHP.

Both Activitys makes fun, but if you do a good Webdesign you have to investing more time

The biggest difference between web en graphic design are the boundaries that are to be crossed. With webdesign you need to;
- consider the platforms (IE, Firefox, Safari).
- consider the resolution of the user.
- javascript enz installed.

I do both, and its always a challenge to keep the webdesign "yours", the client could f*ck it up with the cms (like center the tekst while it has to be outlined left).

The difference i see between Web Design and Graphic Design is that graphic design is the design of logos,typography,visual eyepieces where as web design is the creation of a layout for a website.

Assuming that we are talking about graphic design as in printed copies the biggest difference is how to manage the colors. When designing for the web there are colors that are supposed to look the same on all screens. However with the new screens and their new technology that color mismatch rarely happen. When doing graphic design you need great knowledge on how to get the same color on the paper as you see it on the screens. Including knowing which ICC-profile to use, have calibrated monitors and printers, the right ambience light, neutral walls and all that stuff.

For me that is...

Successful graphic design is like a well-told story. It holds your interest, conveys a message and inspires action.

Hey,

for me Web Design is a graphic design wrapping element. You are allowed to place a lot of graphic design inside a website but the websites structure has to be obtained.
however grahical design has nearly to borders to the human creativity the business of webdesign in its realisation is limited by given hierarchic compositions which must be maintained in order to let a website function and pass the user wanted information paired with image forming design.

to cut a long story short: the intention of a graphic design is to catch the users attention while a website should catch the users intention but also should pass him information which his primary goal to get was when entering the site.

The colour spectrum. Web uses RGB and Graphic Design uses CMYK colour palette.

even if it's about visual communication, the two parts, the offline - Graphic design - and online - Web design - part differentiate themselves wherry well.
The first difference, will be the color. have you ever tried to print a RGB format, on paper? i did, and it's not pretty. Graphic design uses CMYK, Web design RGB format.
A second difference,
the "What You See is What You Get" factor. Offline graphic design ,the printed side, the output is exactly how you planned it, no other mambo jambo, but if you implement the same graphic over the internet ...you'll have a surprise. For web design you'll have to code, for tha same effect.
A 3rd difference, could be the output area, when we say Graphic design we could think to the offline(even if you can see it in the online part), printing part, but when it's about web design we talk only about online, you need a pc to see the result.
hope i pointed some good differences---give me the book! :D

Web design is tied to a browser of some sort (iphone desktop browser, screen reader etc.) graphic design extends beyond this constraint. And can be a real object (packaging, brochures, posters etc.)

webdesign doesn't cover only the graphic aspect of a website, but also usability and accessibility .

Practicality and usability

Web Design is the Art to make the World Wide Web a better Place. It's the Art, to make the perfect skin for a running system on the internet.

Graphic Design is the way to create something accessible for our eyes. It can be a print, an artwork, ad and much more.

for me the big and major difference is the resolution , web design needs 72 DPI where graphic design needs min 200 DPI, plus choosing the font is not a matter in graphic design, while it is a problem in web design if you choose a font which others doesn't have it !!

Web design should work in more than 3 browsers, graphic design only has to work on the printer?

Or: web design is back lit, graphic design isn't?

Main diffrence in my opinion is that, web uses different colours than we can use in graphic design. Of course we can use 1px/1px images as backgrounds, but it isn't the same as you type RGB or Hex to HTML code, and you've got exactly what you want. And second difference is that, in web design how other people see your website often depends of what type of browser they use. And the last and in my opinion most stressful difference is that, you have to develop for something like Internet Explorer in web design. It's the same like you made graphics for monohromatics displays today :)

Ok, I only want that book :P

The two terms are blurred today as print and web are combined for complementary branding. Web design is graphic design over the internet.

The biggest difference to me is how the consumer views them. With print media the consumer actually reads it and can even touch it. In web design however, the consumer will simply scan the page looking for something to grab his or her attention.

The biggest difference between Graphic and web design (which I consider under the overall category of Graphic Design) is that in print-related graphic design, expressing a design is very intuitive in that you can use your hands to draw, craft, or create within a graphic program. But in web design, in order to get your idea on screen, you have to code it in html, css, php, etc.

The language of execution/expression is different.

Biggest difference between Graphic Design and Web Design? With the former, you don't have to worry about Internet Explorer.

The biggest difference is that somehow even the bosses secretary's 8 year old son seems to "know" how to design for web. But for some reason that doesn't apply for graphic design where everybody consults experts or at least semi-pros.
If I'd own the book I could show my future clients that webdesign has a lot of facets which usually exceeds the design knowledge of an 8 year old (not dissin kids here)

cheers mike

When will the winner be announced?

design gráfico é aplicado em qualquer objeto, como grafismo ou qualquer outra tecnica de representação, também aplicado em outras midias de comunicação como televisão.

web design, é aplicado a internet, não só para computadores conectados a rede, mais para todo objeto que une pessoas e possua uma interatividade com estas, como um celular, um gps, ... quem sabe um dia até uma teve.

The biggest difference between Graphics and Web Design is the color mode. Graphic Design uses CMYK while Web Design uses RGB.

web-design is interactive - graphic design is static and can not be participated in

The biggest difference for me is the accessibility. We can talk about how the formats are different all day long, but the biggest difference is web design can be accessed much more easily to a lot of different type of people, while graphic design, mostly in print forms, are usually focused on specific genre of people. I might be wrong, but I mostly see good graphic designs in specialize magazine such as fashion, design, comics etc. While it might be true on the internet also, the fact is it's mostly free on the internet and much easier to discover new specialized sites then to discover a new magazine. In a way, the web designer will have to change their process from graphic design because it is talking to a wider audience.

Print design is tied to the medium. When you have printed your type, it doesn't matter if it's a 15 year old student from germany or a 60 yr old manager from brazil who is reading it, it's gonna look the same for all of them.

When it comes to web design, you basically have to adapt your design to a wide range of different interfaces to read it. Chances are the website will have slight differences even within the same office, viewing it from different computers, macs, even handhelds.

So while you can exactly define how something is going to look like when printed, on the web you have to achieve a good compability for a lot of clients.
And on top of that, you aren't only designing the appearance of information, but also the ways and means to access it. You have to design interactivity and funcionality.

I could go on and on...

For me the biggest difference between Graphic and Web Design is that Graphic Designs aren't changeable if they are printed.
Web Designs have to be flexible, because they are viewed under different conditions (browser, resolution etc.) and have to combine the design with a function.

For me, the difference between web design and graphic design is that graphic design focuses only on the visual aspect of a piece of art while web design needs to consider the technical, less free and creative part as well...programming languages have very different borders than the graphic visualisation of a human.

Hope you get my point ;-)

The biggest difference between graphic and Web design is that one can eventually get printed and the other can eventually get coded. The mediums used for each are completely different. Graphic design is used for print material and tangible objects, while Web design is used through monitors and screens.

i think there are not difference between graphic and web design. The aims remain always the same. The difference can be found among the stuff you use to get the results.

The diference is basic: Graphic Desing will make the nice package, folder or cover of something that you can sell on-line, on a page you built as a Web-Desing project...

The biggest difference is the programming aspect of web design. Both graphic and web design must follow the Elements and Principles of Design, but web design must also follow coding principles and take into account web standards, user interface, functionality, etc.

Graphic design tells stories, brings emotions and let us FEEL whats happen in the story. They influence us (for buying something or donating something)

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Web design is technical. It must give us a great user experience to FIND something, because we have more information as we have on ads. These information must be clearly readable to show the user "hey here you can do something with me"

That's my view of graphic design and web design.

Thanks and have a nice day. (Greetings from Germany!)

For me the biggest differences would be that graphic design is something I know a bit about, and web is something I know very little about.

Side note: Thank-you for the short, user friendly post. This is very uncharacteristic of your site which tends towards long posts, full of high res pictures. While often beautiful, they take way to long to load in my RSS reader. I really enjoy when you do informational or instructional posts like this or your PS tutorials. I just wish there were a separate feed for them.

Thank you.

The difference between graphic and web design relies on the technic details of the media they're made for. Paper is a on way only media that only reflects light. Web is for the communities to make interferences and runs on a self-bright screen. It's not the Design method who changes, it's the design problem itself.

Web design is dynamic. It can contain multimedia and is able to react upon the user. For Instance online dictionaries are able to pronounce the word or websites can explain difficult words with little Javascript boxes.

Graphic design is static. There is no reaction progress like there is in web design. But graphic design needs no computers or any other device to view it. So they are independent and most importantly graphic design can be sensed.

In my opinion: Limitations & Restrictions.

Graphic design has few limits aside from the user's mind, tools, or project objective.

Web design is restricted to due to browser compatibility, web fonts, mobile devices, SEO, image file size & resolution, etc.

Thanks!

biggest difference is that in printed design u can tare the paper apart if u did not like the design... but in the web design... well u have 2 blow up the screen if u want, or simply, just close the window :D lol

but it's a serious difference though :-B

Web Design could be more interactive than just 2D Graphic by using Flash and something else to increase the connection between the Web designer and the users.

Moreover, Web Design is using 72 dpi RGB color and Printout Graphic is using 300 dpi (depends on what kind of output do you want)CYMK color.

Anyway, Web design could be multimedia method by using animation, video, photography, grahpic, and so on to plug into the website to draw the user attention. By using the program language, we can makes a lot of thing also, E.G Drawing by just typing the code.
And Grahpics basing on the 2D method and using color, typography etc.

To me, the difference has always been control of the medium.

In Graphic Design, we'll always know the type of material (e.g. - paper) our work will be printed on, with what type of printing method, which inks we will have available, and the finite dimensions of the design.

But in Web Design, we have much less control over the display medium. Each user is viewing our work from a different OS platform & browser, and different sized monitor resolutions & color calibrations. This coupled with dynamic content makes for a far less predictable result.

This is not to say that web or graphic design is more difficult than the other, just that each faces different challenges.

One expresses, the other informs.

Im sure you can work out which way round that goes. Or mabye it works both ways?

A diferença entre o design grafico e o web design, é a especificidade de um e a generalidade do outro, porem os dois trabalham com a necessidade de fazer um produto ou site mais atraentes.

The difference between graphic design and web design, is the general area that one works with and the specifics that the other works, but bouth works with the necessity of making a product or web site more atractive.

The difference between web design and graphic design is that in print we must establish a communication with the reader through static elements, the information contained remains static for long.

On the Web, information is constantly changing because network is always in constant change that takes the interface to be mutated periodically, we must establish a communication with the reader despite the changes that occur cyclically.

By the way, excelent site! I'm a huge fan!

Graphic design is visual poetry. Web design is prose. Web design is designing for an audience, a receiver. Graphic design is designing for anyone.

in my opinion:

Web design limits me to work. it has a huge amount of hierarchy and that "Grey area" rules that confuses the brain to spread ideas.

just like my lecturer always said when it comes to critique my web work "you cant do this. only you end up understand your web" and next day when i got critique again after i redo my work the lecturer said "your web looks to boxy, to etc etc"

while Graphic Design has all the freedom. at some point it does.

p/s : I'm still taking adv web next semester. God bless me please.

One major difference is the relationship a graphic designer has with his/her printer. Having conversations about the paper (stock) to use and what colors can be used. It adds an extra dimension to the process rather than just having the web designer and the client.

Using the basic ideas from graphic design web designers can open themselves up to new areas and ideas they might not have noticed before.

Having just started a night course for graphic design not having a PC/Mac in the room was very telling. Very hands on cutting and moving elements. The lessons learnt will hopefully help with my web work.

Graphic design is often used to complement web design, but they are far from the same thing. Consider this: a navigation bar. It was made in photoshop most likely, but its basic function is to make the site look pretty. But, if you're looking at a nav bar from a web designers point of view, you have to do much more than create an image for the nav bar. With web design, you have to take that extra step to give your site a unique feel that will keep visitors coming. As you can most likely tell, graphic and web design are most likely not the same thing.

Graphic design: working on the details for only one option.
Web design: working on the general for many options.

The greatest differnce most deffinetly is USABILITY.
In print we can do close to what ever Design we want as long as it looks neat and achieves the desired effect.

Webdisgn is different though. As you might have already noticed many webistes of ex-graphic- and now web-deisgners are overloaded with graphics and sparcling effects. But that is not what webdesign is about. It is not only about looking good, but about combining great looks with cross-browser, cross-screen-resolution usability and functualism.

For me graphic design is a basic element of webdesign. They differ in the complexety of creation.

Light is in my umble opinion the only difference, it is the preception of light that makes your approach to a subject diferent due to the media, one emites light the other recieves it.

The biggest difference, for me, is that Web design lacks emotions and we still can't figure out why and how to dget around that. Plus, when you're dealing with Web design, it's far less intuitive because you have to code it in order to get the real feeling of it.

The beauty of graphic design is that it encompasses the giant genre of on print, web, publishing, and demanding platforms of art.

Web design is just a sub-set of the art of graphics applied with a layer of code and markup to render the beauty that is the world wide web :)

Or so I've heard :)

The goal in graphic design is to express a feeling, and you have total freedom on how you achieve that.

In web design, you must make sure the users can read and understand your content quickly so they don't get bored, they need to be able to navigate the website easily, and the website has to appear the same in any browser/OS/screen-size.

With Graphic Design you can go as far as you want. With Webdesign, the end result has to be on the web, as for Graphic Design it doesn't have to be.

But that can't limit the creativity!

I think the main difference is, in a way, the amount of fun both the creator and the viewer can have with the final product.
It's not about what's needed to get each one made, CMYK vs RGB, or CSS or HTML; that's like outlining differences between illustrating in Photoshop vs doing it with watercolors. Of course it carries out a different process, involves a wider set of knowledge, all those things.
In my opinion, web design has to ensure the viewer easy access to every bit of information it offers, dynamism, FUN, it has a chance to be the magic in motion we can't expect from print graphics: we can imagine those, true, but isn't it all the better when you can see it done?
For me, web design, when done right, carries out a kind of magic that makes the one we sense in print graphics, actually come to life; it invites us to participate and be a part of it.

In most graphic design, your finished product comes to fruition as a single, cohesive unit -- a newsletter, a book cover, a storefront sign, an album cover.

In webdesign, your finished product is a set of often difficult-to-tame, interacting with each other, with browsers, and with page content.

The biggest difference between graphic and web design is context. While graphic design focuses on the artistic and the aesthetic (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, brushes, patterns, filters, etc.), web design concentrates on the creation / replication of a design and the inclusion of interactive properties using web technologies (i.e. HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, etc.).

Graphic design is a subjective and abstract set of concepts (i.e. How does this look? Is that color scheme complimentary?) while web design is an objective and functional set of concepts (i.e. Does this work in IE6? Will this look the same on an iPhone? What happens when I click this button?)

There's is no difference if you are strictly asking about the design...

If you are going for CMYK vs RGB color spaces, or 72 vs 300dpi then yea, there are those differences, but the process from the designer is the same.

When you start to get into even more detailed with let's say eCommerce design, now the designer has to take a totally different approach because now the subjectivity of the design can be measured with a dollar amount.

If you ask me
Graphic design is open to all form of media web,print,illustration, video and more and web design
is limited to the data is can content like the amount of colors, size and more

but a great Graphic designer knows how to make it all work! ;)

The difference would be complexity.

When you do graphic design, you have to work with a space to make it catch the eye of the people and besides, give them the right idea you want them to have. You have to make, if it is possible, that the people interact with you design.

When you do web design, you don' t have to think olny in to catch the eye of the user. You have plenty of ideas one inside of the other and you have to try to make all of them clear in one design. Besides, the interaction with the space is going to be more complex, you have to think how are you going to make it usefull and attractive at the same time, so they can catch the idea easily and still be able to move intuitively from one idea to another without confusing the user... so, it's complexity.

the difference is that the web we are inundated with information and many "pages" in print the phenomenon is much more restricted to
library and the "pages" are much less

While Graphic works for print, packaging, etc, and so webdesign as name says works for web,

Web design must convey a message without relying on graphics through the use of hierarchies and simple/streamlined functionality. Graphics in web design support the message and form the first impression, but are secondary to the function. Web design expects an active audience.

Graphic design conveys a message without the restraint of function... the first impression in this case IS often-times the message. Everything contained in the message must be packaged and delivered to a passive audience.

Each have their own type of freedoms in the process, but graphic design in the last decade often directs the audience from a form of traditional media to a web design that is complimentary and supplemental.

It'll be very useful for me. Since my background is more to graphic design, until now I'm still having some problems in designing for websites. Maybe this book is the answer of my prayer :p

Graphic design and the web design are both interactive. The big difference I feel is the coding with html, javascript, ajax, and etc. Unless a designer uses Dreaweaver like a pro, manual coding can be difficult. Other than that I think web design and graphic design is simialr because projects from both have limits, tasks, and restrictions if designing for a client.
This book looks like a helpful tool.
Nice look!

THE difference between web and print design is the manipulation factor.

Printdesign is able to manipulate,to use, to influence the viewer, so the designer got the remote in his hand.

Webdesign is completely different. The designer has to prepare his work, to be used, to be influenced and to be manipulated by the user. so the user got the remote now.

Thats the most obvius difference!

Sorry for my ordinary english... i'm from germany ;)

Surely the biggest difference is delivery. Web design is delivered through a 72dpi screen which scrolls one way or another made possible by a browser, yet Graphic design is delivered on many formats, not limited to screen but limited in other ways by paper size, or printing techniques. Often made possible by printing techniques which don't work digitally like a browser.

when thinking about web vs traditional one of the main differences to me is that web design must take into account the decreased attention span. the user has even more control with the web.

Graphic design is a way of expressing a message through words and pictures; inspiring others to create even more innovative and mind-capturing work with only the limits of the mind. Web design, to me, is the same. Only on a different medium. Web designers are constantly raising the bar on new and even more innovative websites than the last, just as graphic designers are on print.

Wed Design vs. Graphic Design
Digital vs. Print
RGB vs. CMYK

In my opinion, its all in the medium.

I don't really remember! but I want that book n_n

please!!

coding

I already have this book. It's a great book with a lot of information!

Graphic Design would focus on how to design graphically pleasing layouts. You would learn about color theory, typefaces, the relationship between design elements when placed on a page and just generally how to make things, either printed or displayed in another way, look appealing.
They use CMYK.

Web Design would require many of the skills of a good graphic designer but also, you'd need to learn how to write web pages. You'd probably start by learning HTML (hyper text mark up language) which is the scripting language web pages are made up of. You'd move on to current and updated languages like XML and cascading style sheets.
These people use RGB.

The difference is not the design part but the way in which you can communicate. Graphic Design is largely still, not moving peices of art that may convey a message... that does not allow much interaction...whereas web design allows you to interact at that very instance (e.g you may design a busines card but it leads to a third party objct eg a computer or phone in order to contact you where they may ask to see some previous work. Whereas a web portfolio the [public can se your previous work without asking and then the call to action is via the site through email rather a third party object)

That wasnt explained as well as i thought it would be but you get the gist.

I make graphic design/art as an hobby, and webdesigns as freelance work.

Well with webdesign you have the opportunity to be creative within a certain framework. But with graphic design you have more creative space, to make just what you want. I think there is a difference, and both gives you a great time, so I love that I am able to make both of them.

interactivity. period.

Even though you want a website to be pretty, it has to function and have a purpose. A lot of people can't mix those very well and so you usually have a great looking site that is a pain to use or a ugly site with the best interface. So making those two work together is a challenge. So the difference is usability.

to be honest, i have no idea what the difference is... guess i gotta read this :-P

The biggest differences between Graphic Design and Web Design are as follows:

Printed pieces are ALWAYS in CMYK, whereas web projects always have to be in RGB. The web also uses hexidecimals which are pretty much superfluous in the realm of print design unless you are trying to match a color from a web site.

While printed pieces are most commonly measured in inches, web projects are always in pixels.

Another big difference is that printed design has a bit more freedom to be chaotic, whereas web design is based on the structure and organization of the information and how it is presented.

The difference is in the user experience. With graphic design, the designer has total control over where to guide the user. In web design, we forfeit that in order to let the user have a more full experience. You do not want a user to follow an entirely predictable path, you want the user to browse the interface. Browsing paths vs. guided paths.

Well, web design needs to be able to look awesome but at the same time be functional to the user.

Graphic design virtually has no limits.

I believe graphic design (which can be used by any medium) can be put to enhance web design (which is used by some sort of browser).

For the most part web design is memorization. I mean that in regard to technologies and languages. Client x wants site y..... To achieve this, I use HTML here, Javascript here for this effect, PHP for the contact form... Knowing the tools via memory and recalling how things are done.

Graphic design on the other hand is limitless. Graphic designers are told here is an idea, create something, media, concept, color, are all left up the the creative abilities of the graphic designer.

Also a web designers sketchbook usually has wireframes, and a graphic designers sketchbook can have anything from human anatomy sketches, animals, fruit, logos.. you name it, it may be there.

Graphic design is based around creating a single static creation - it remains the same once finished. Web design encompasses both engineering and aesthetics - interface, layout, and content handling fall into the role of web design to produce something that can constantly change based on the code being fed into it. Web design IS graphic design, as well as far, far more.

there is a lot od diferences but i think main one is tipe od viewing/reding it by user. Web design must be oriented on skipping of content while graphic design can be focused on more abstract forms. recipienthas usuali spend more time on looking on printed graphic design than on same content on the web.

With web design the paper never runs out, you have limitless space, but with graphic design you are constrained to fixed size pages which are costly to print.

Usability

The first difference is the channel that carries the message. All the other differencies start from this.

Graphic Design holds a wide array of designing areas. I consider Web Design to be a category within Graphic Design itself. Apart from this, if we were to actually consider them separate for the sake of this discussion, I would say that there are appearances of limitations in the web world from a technical-knowledge standpoint. However, if you obtain the technical expertise and integrate the two skill sets, you'll find that whatever limitations you thought were there, no longer are, and instead, have been replaced with a wide array of limitless possibilities. :)

Web Design has so many limitations.
Graphic Design you are only limited by your imagination.

the biggest difference, web design it's exclusively for screens previsualization.

the one is able to print the other is senseless to print

With web, you deal with different browsers / rss readers
With print, you deal with different printers, and what they can do

Hi,

I realy dont know the difference between Grapic en Web design... :(

Maybe i need the book "Designing for the Web" to find out!?

Web design has to immediately click with the viewer. Judgements are formed within milliseconds of scanning the page. Print design goals can be very different to that.

The main difference for me is that web design is faster evolving than graphic design, driven mainly by the means by which it is delivered.

Web Design is all about making the most of the screen within the browser window. Turning that space into something that looks good and functions the same.

Graphic Design is about turning any creative idea into a reality whether it's on the screen or in print.

Web design is a specialisation of graphic design.

In addition to everything implied in generic graphic design which usually applies itself to static flat surfaces, the web is an interactive medium where core content and presentational specifics are subject to change from user to user, device to device, second to second.

Web design for me was always so different because everything has to be in its place and everything has to be linked to that place. With graphic design, I'm copying and pasting things, adding files from random folders and such.

I think Graphic Design itself, although it can be applied to other disciplines and its intrinsically linked to them, in the printed world it is basically a static image, where as in the web world it is a live structure that can be changed by the second.

So basically, Graphic Design is static, and Web Design is a live structure.

The difference is in the delivery. The message is the same...Of course designing for the web often means *shudder* considering IE6. ;P

cool

I think the major differences are the programming stuff (HTML, PHP, Javascript, Actionscript), the interaction user-machine-website, and the last one but not less important the CMYK and RGB color system - it is really different! I have a webdesign related brain lol RGB rulles!

Hellow,

Grafic design is design that is focussing on the graphical part of the design. Meaning it focusses more on how the brochure etc looks and how its going to correspondent with the client. What colour will attract most people and how can we stimulate them to buy products. In graphic design the design represents the brand. Therefore it is very impotent what layout you use, what usage of colour or what font.

Web design is focussed on functionality. The graphical part of the design is also important but not as important as the functionality. The design must be both simple and good looking. People should be able to navigate fast and easy though the website, getting the information they need about the brand or the service they are trying to get. No one wants to search hours on a site trying to find information. If the site isn't functional at all people will just look for an other company, which will be only a click away.

This is my opinion/difference of both designs.

creadionizor

graphic design is creating an image that speaks a message visually to people. example: a logo for a product produces appeal to said product using form and color, etc. that makes people think.

web design also uses visual appeal, but focuses more on layout organization for easy navigation combined with actual written content. example: said product's website uses the same appealing color scheme to relate to the product but organizes the product's information in an easy and, in a way, artistic grid (based on layout scheme) that can be scrolled through using links.

other than the obvious technical differences i would have to say that web design must give the viewer reasons to follow a path .... whereas graphic design needs to give a possible path to that viewer .

you are already on my site . you have already chosen a possible road to take . now i need to show you why you should stick it .

graphic design needs to guide you to that possible road that i am offering .

to sum up : web design is about convincing . graphic design is about guiding .

great giveaway by the way ( ohh .. i made a poem :P ) .

hmm let me shed some light on the people behind the concepts:

graphic designer: passion and love for shapes and color.
web designer: graphic designer merged with a mad hacker.

The difference between Graphic Design and Web Design is that with Web Design, you have to keep in mind that no matter how beautiful your design skills are, you have to think about navigation. The design for web should work with the post production (HTML, PHP, CSS, etc.) and it's not always how good it looks. It's also about being synoptic.

I bet for all the money on my bank account, that most graphic designer (extremely techical, very advanced) can NOT create a very relaxing, simple web design.

there is no difference.

any form of design or artistic impression (print, static, web or motion) is designed to convey a message or meaning and to illicit a response from the audience.

good design isn't governed by its media and is graded in how well its message is broadcast and understood

Web designers are confronted to technical limits (code html/css/Javascript, browsers, accessibility, etc...).
Even if the limits of Graphic designers are those of their clients (time / money), there is no creativity limit. Graphic Designers are more free to create what they want to. They could easely express what they have in mind without thinking of the technical contraints.
So, my conclusion : "Liberty is the main difference".

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I honestly don't know the difference...

I just left my job at a web development firm doing technical writing and support to follow my dream of design. Up until now I would say I'm pursuing my dream of graphic/web design, but now I see there's a difference! I guess I need this book!

Oh, and did I mention I just left my job and can't afford a book :-(

GD : WD = candy : chocolate

I think that the biggest difference between web design and graphic design is that in web design you have to take the user into account. You have to make your designs intuitive and easy to understand.

the dimension

The biggest difference for me is that graphic design seems to be static. It's printed and done. Web design on the other hand is ever changing, constantly updating. With Web design you always seem to be adding or tweeking something ;p

difference web and graphic design? web design sucks,well at least i suck at web designing.

this book will aid me very well.

The biggest different is interactivity. Graphic design is looking. Web design is looking, clicking, and investigating.

Web design needs to take usability into account more than graphic design, because it's in closer interaction with the user.

The biggest difference is interaction with the design.

web is design for interactive communication.

graphic design is a form of one way communication.

Designing for print is less "boxy".

For me, web is all about unobtrusive, seamless interaction with content.

The biggest different between print and web design is the fact that the web is interactive. It must be easy for the user to input and receive information. In print, it is only a one-way medium (with the exception of forms you have to fill out and mail/hand in).

With graphic design you don't have to worry about screen resolution.

I believe the greatest difference is web design must be functional. It's also a combination of aesthetic graphic designs and code and such to make a website functional and navigable. Graphic design only considers the visual design of something and it is a bit more creative and there are more freedoms. Web designs cannot be too crazy for "soft" users might get overwhelmed, but for graphic design, artists can make it as complex or simplistic as they want it - it's their way of expressing their message.

Graphic design is the visual articulation of the designers solution. It encompasses the many branches of the wider discipline of graphic design, e.g., print, web, motion design.

Web design is a discipline or branch under graphic design and deals with the web articulation of presenting information (these days collecting and dynamically working with information returned from users).

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Graphic Design -> No coding skills needed.

Webdesign -> Coding/Architectal/Logical skills needed.

Well largely Graphic Design is more of a presentation of information to view whereas Web Design is presentation of information in which to interact with.

Function is slightly more important in Web Design.

Graphic designers don't have to worry about how they work will be sliced and coded so that their client can have a quick, optimized page...
Web designers must think ahead and limit their creativity because of these factors.

Webdesign needs a lot of information spread over multiple pages. Remaining sleek, workable and interesting.

Graphic design needs a lot of information bundled in one, sparkling, significant design.

Web design has an emphasis on coding/programming, print design has more of an emphasis on the design itself.

Graphic Design is usually a tangible product, such as magazines, product packaging, posters, pamphlets, etc. Web Design is usually only viewed via the World Wide Web, therefore not typically a tangible product.

Graphic Designers work in various mediums as where Web Designers generate work for one specific medium; the internet.

A Web Design is nothing without graphics,
but a graphic IS still something without a Web Design.

I disagree with those who think graphic design is limitless and web design is limited. Any graphic can be displayed on a website and, if you're willing to have the viewer scroll x-y, displayed with as much detail as the original.

Forget print profiles, and colors, and resolution, and browsers - the only difference between the two mediums is interaction.

A website can be poked and prodded to reveal new and interesting things. A graphic design can only be admired.

WebDesign is behind the screen.

Graphic Design : I can do anything about it, I can design anything that is in my head , use my imagination, draw or paint anything that's in my imagination.

Web Design : In web design, you have to understand what your client want not what you want, even you don't like the composition of the color, the image, or anything that's in inside it. But, you have to design it as attractive as possible so it can make your client and all the people who are visited that site happy and wanna back again, again, again and again.. :D
I think that's a big challenge in web design, so you need that kind of book to understand what kind of things that have to be concern dealing with web design.

graphic design doesn't have a spider

For me, the core difference between web design and graphic design is that when you are designing a webpage for a client, it must display what *they* want and how they want to convey their company image, and when i do personal graphic design pieces, its an expression of me and who i am.

On the other hand, if you are designing a personal website, you have to think how *you* would like to convey *yourself* and how you would like to interact with your own work, and how you want others to interact with your work.

**IN A NUTSHELL, graphic design is a representation of yourself. It must covey a message or an idea, whereas web design is how you want to convey yourself. Web Design must be easy to interact with and an enjoyable interaction experience. For everyone,

Interactivity is the greatest difference. The mouse click changes the user to designer dynamic by enabling the web designer to have a dialogue rather than a monologue with the audience.

Webdesign in interactive, how it must incorporate graphic design as one component to attract people to interact with it. Webdesign requires heavy coding of multiple formats. The use of colors between the two can also range according to its functionality. Webdesign must be much more user friendly for it to maintain its popularity and attract more viewers.

webdesign is the science of making people look at what you want them to look at, graphic design is the science of making people see what you see.

Aren't the differences biased?

I would say that graphics design is more focused. It's about visually sending a message.

Web design, I would say, is more about composing a design to present a message.

Although there isn't too much difference in what I said, web design is about drawing people in for a message, graphics design is about displaying a message... Can't phrase it in a good way...

web design - in a browser; graphic design - in a brochure ;p

Just like a fish can't live without water, so can't web design live without graphic design. Graphic design is a way of making thoughts come to life.

Easy - Format.

For me, main difference is interactivity.
Graphic design, you just see that.
Web design, you interact with the graphic interface.

Wed Design - Must interactive with user, intuition interface, friendly interface, functionality design, appropriate color and element position.

Graphic design - Must beautiful, creative, sometime can be something that look difference.

That one is easy: "User freedom". In web design the user has all the freedom in the world to use a different font size, browser, window size, etc. etc.

In web design you do not control the medium.

the biggest difference for me between graphic and web design is how you see it. In graphic design you print it on a page it stays on the page, the page doesn't change its properties (size, gloss, resolution, etc.). In web design you put a page on a server and you do not know how the end user will see it on a computer with a browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera), on a cellphone (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia) or in a completely different way.

I think of them as the same thing, graphic design is just more tangible.

usability,usability and usability.

As I see it, Graphic Design is the practice of creating a graphical piece in a variety of media to transmit a message. That includes advertising, identity, commercials, websites, and pretty much everything printed that tries to sell you something :)

Web design, the graphical part, is just graphic design applied to the web. But in addition to that, it includes the knowledge of usability, accessibility, technologies and user experience.

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Gimme gimme!! ;)

Graphic design is the visualization of concept or content, webdesign is the presentation of concept or content through interactive means. e.g. you can bring graphic design to a webdesign.
Keep it up!

Graphic starts with "G" while Web design starts with "W".
Cheers ;)

The difference between web- and graphic design is the information you want to send out.

The difficulty in graphics depends on the crowd we want te reach.

interaction

design for paper don't have interaction with users.

the goal of the paper is to transmit a message to the READERS.

the goal of web is to transmit a message to the USERS and to have a feedback from them.

you can use the same rules: colors, fonts, grids (to apply design or psicologic principles, for example)
so you walk the same ways, but to reach different goals

number of colours

I feel the main difference is in the usability & UI. Something that'll look amazing as a poster might completely fail for a website using the same design.

For me the biggest difference is placement and pixel perfection!

Ok what I know are those differences between graphic design and web design

1 colour mood
2 saving format
3 resolution size
3 design size (there few sizes for web design only)
4 animation (web we can use it but we can’t use it in designing poster)
5 web pages in web-design (linked) non in graphic design
6 pop-up pages only in web design

Finally, we can use graphic design to make a website look superior

Web design has to include so many areas.. Functionality, ergonomy, art, etc. Graphic design's main task is to impress, to please, to reach people in some way.

While graphic design can be good altough it creates many kinds of emotions, web design should just create those good ones :)

Graphic: you see it
Web: you touch it

Ever smelt a freshly published website? Nah, me neither.
Guess that's the answer. Web-designers don't get to work with smell yet. I did a lovely laser-cut brochure out of timber. Man, it smelt like Christmas.

I think biggest difference is that you can go (more less- depending of the project) crazy with graphic design. When doing stuff for web you have to remember about limitations with browsers, functionality and usability etc. Its completely different medium in my opinion.

I think that the biggest difference is the user interaction

the biggest difference ins rgb and cmyk

Web design is any kind of design related or intended to the internet.
Graphic design is any kind of publicity design.
So we could say that web design is a part of graphic design.

The main difference is at the technological limitations of each one and at the function of them. Graphic design generally serves to inform and communicate. In web design, besides informing and communicating, you can allow the user to perform tasks, which demands much more attention with usability. The support of graphic design works is physical materials, like paper, metal, wood, etc. The support of web design is digital displays.

Web design is not art, it has to interact with the user (visitor) and use a heterogenetic interface.

The major difference between Web Design and Graphic Design in Web Design is that its design will have a feature, rules will have to be converted to xhtml / css, is not free as in graphic design.

i think the biggest difference is your moms vagina

Print, you design it and you know it will look like your design when it comes back from the printer. Web design, it almost never looks exactly how you designed it!

Graphic design is something i freakin' like;

wait this ain't gonna work ...

I still thinking that, bigger than the color's difference, the targets of these kinds of design are under different situations.

Web Design takes into consideration the user's action on the conceptual step. The interation is the biggest difference. No doubts about this.

To me, the biggest difference between graphic design and webdesign is that you can't control everything the users see. It is much about trying to keep a constant and letting go a little. Each user has one specific configuration, a different OS, a different browser, javascript and flash support or not, and it's just impossible to cater for everyone. It's about accepting that and trying not to freak out over vertical alignments, font size, scrolling and such.

You also have to consider so much more on Webdesigning. There's usability, accessibility, web standards, SEO... I wouldn't say webdesigning is contained within general graphic designing, but rather that it uses its main concepts. But there are many things that webdesigners should know and that are completely unnecessary to graphic designers, so they're different things altogether.

The biggest difference is that Web Design is online and Graphic Design is offline.

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A maior diferença é que Web Design é virtual e Graphic Design é impresso.

i suppose the simplest way for me to describe it would be

Graphic Design is solving problems through understanding and legibility, visually.

Web design is solving a problem with usability

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Web design is part of graphic design, its purpose is to function online - this differentiates it from other areas of graphic design.

In the web user have to communicate with the system, so mean it's interactive. I think that's the biggest difference between web design and printed design. You have to think about UI and UIX design, which many webdesigner lack. And of course it all have to be good looking! Including nice typography, great use of colors(for web), made for the right audience and putted together with great layout.

In both field, print and web design you have to know the technology before you can have the best of it. It's good to know what are you going to do, why and to who. In web design you have to know what can be done with code and flash etc. And which is the best technique to do these things. Printed designs you have to know what can be printed and worry about things like resolution etc. You have to worry about PMS, CMYK and complex colorprofiles. In both fields, these are the things you will learn by work experience.

In my opinion you can't never get enough experience or knowledge about graphic design, ui-design or web design. It's a lifelong learing progress.

I still thinking that, bigger than the color's difference, the targets of these kinds of design and their situations make the biggest difference between the web and graphic designs.

Web design take users into consideration in a level that the graphic don't. Interaction is greatly important. No doubts about the biggest difference.

The difference I found is:
+ Graphic Design creates communication,
+ Web Design creates experiences.

the biggest difference is time continuity:

Graphic design presents a static and direct communication, viewers are presented with information all at the same time, with different focus points. The user needs to be impacted in a more "in your face" way, in order for them to focus in your design.

In web design, the viewer manages timelines, sections, etc, all of these viewable in a more "relaxed" way (remember the user is focused on what you're presenting them, they are sitting in the computer expecting to see your work). This allows the designer to present different focus points in differents lapses of time.

The biggest difference in my mind is that you are dealing with a very dynamic, changing medium in web design when the work is finally published, and in print design you are dealing with a permanent product when its published. These 2 differences are the main reasons that design decisions are taken in both media. Things like colors, readability and interaction are modified based on the medium. Web design takes principles from graphic design from the end user standpoint, in order to make it visually appealing and readable, but what governs that is ultimately the code.

Web design is like painting on a spider web. Gotta be subtle and clever not to taunt the spider.

hum ... user actively needs to experience the web, in graphic design he can just relax and enjoy

The process.

One is coating surfaces (either on a physical or digital plane), while the other is syntactic; however both are creative. The symbolism/codification of each relate both to social normals and standards, so they are heavily related despite their inherent differences.

Two differences that come to mind, and one reminder.

The difference that comes to mind is the immediate ability to revise and correct an error. You can make a change so instantly that the impact of the initial mistake can be cut to a minimum. That's a double-edged sword, however. When enough people know of the mistake, the author is faced with an ethical dilemma: he can make a correction that's so seamless, it can make the whistle-blower look crazy, or if he's smart, he'll leave the mistake, give it a cross-out attribute, and put the correction after it.

The other difference is, in a way, the opposite of the first one: as long as there's a server holding the data, the document you post today will linger, long after the author cares enough about the data to keep up with life's changes.

And now the reminder. There are other kinds of graphic design on the Web besides HTML, beyond the scope of your browser. I'm thinking of the PDF. The modern standard for PDF allows for all kinds of other media, both linked and — especially lately — embedded into the document. You keep the typography, and with an eye on the Kb count, you can make a rich, creative and shareable interactive experience, visible in a free player.

The difference? Good graphic design can stand alone. Good web design cannot. Web content needs to be well designed graphically AND it needs to function. The interactive part of a good web design needs to be as appealing to the viewer/user as the visual part. And if a site is really great, the accessibility doesn't interfere with the visual.

Graphic Design can live without Web Design but Web Design can't live without Graphic Design.

Web design is designed for usability, while graphic design is designed for your soul!

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Web design is designed for usability, while graphic design is designed for your soul!

Graphic Design = points
Web Designs = pixels

that's it.

Paper X Screen

CMYK & RVB

For me, graphic is mostly about emotion or feelings that author want to share with others (or just simply to put stuff from his mind into a bunch of pixels :) ) . There are no trends changing every year, no borders, just his imagination. Probably the only needed things are ideas and creativity.
In webdesign, these things are not enough. You need to follow changing trends (something that was really awesome one or two years ago, can be crappy now), you need to have kinda big knowledge about usability, optimisation, etc. to create really good designs.

Strictly, graphic is mostly for admiring, and maybe some deeper reflection - and designs are meant to be used, so it has to be both beautiful and usable :)

Graphic - the Art Of The Mind
Web Design - The Art Of Psychology&Words....

The only difference is the way you develop interactions.

Web design is an extension of graphic design. The differences between the two fall largely in how the end product is used.

While emphasis is placed on image, typography, and message in Graphic Design, the message should always come first in web design for an obvious reason: the web is an interactive medium. While you can roll up a poster or magazine, glance at a billboard and marvel at a bit of commercial beauty, your interaction with the design ends there. You have passively perceived it. On the web, however, a person must actively seek information in order to find it. While a person can expect with reasonable certainty that when they open up last month's copy of Juxtapoz and turn the pages, the information on those pages remains the same as it was the last time they interacted with it. Such is not the case with the web where the expectation is of an ephemeral cloud of content.

Graphic design = static. Web Design = dynamic.

The difference between Graphic and Web Design is with Graphic Design you have much more freedom on how you want your media displayed. You control how the media works within the guidelines of a billboard / magazine page / flier / etc... With Web Design you have certain guidelines with how it displays. Not everyone used the same browser / machine type / monitor. so you have to be considerate of other users. All in all though they are a great way to get your name out in the world.

Web design is a subset of graphic design. Throughout its history, graphic design was static. Even time-based media such as television and film were static in the sense that once the piece was created it was never changed by user interaction.

But the Web changed that in two ways: first, by introducing an ever-increasing variety of interfaces and sizes over which web design flows, and second, by giving users the ability to modify interface themselves -- by increasing the font size, or suppressing images, or setting browser size, and so on.

The challenge of designing for the fluidity of presentation which arises from the variety of interfaces and the interaction of users is the biggest difference between web design and traditional graphic design.

I think the biggest difference is the interaction.
In graphic design, people look at the thing, and when they're finished, they lay it aside.
In webdesgin, the crowd interacts with the product, and when it's good, they come back. Therefore, you've really got to design with the user in mind in webdesign, whilst that factor means a little less in graphic design.

I think the biggest difference is the user interaction.
In graphic design, people look at the thing, and when they're finished, they lay it aside.
In webdesign, the user interacts with the product. Whether it is looking at the design, reading content, or anything else, it all relates to eachother. When it's all good, the user comes back, and does it all again.
Therefore, you have got to design with the user in mind, whilst that factor means (a little) less in graphic design.

Web Design vs Graphic Design: obviously RGB vs. CMYK. There is also font restrictions (web safe), usability issues, needing to direct your target audience to dive deeper into the site. There are so many more "rules & standards" to designing for the web.

Web Design vs Graphic Design: obviously RGB vs. CMYK. There is also font restrictions (web safe), usability issues, needing to direct your target audience to dive deeper into the site. There are so many more "rules & standards" to designing for the web.

I think the main difference for me is that with graphic design it has the ability to be very personal and doesn't have to appeal to a wide audience. With web design, it has to appeal to as large a group as possible, covering more than one interest group or demographic.

Web Design... It´s about "codes" ... you need precission, sometimes perfection

Both of them:
-usability
-functionality
-inspirational

*and sometimes you can use RGB for graphic DIGITAL design

=D

The biggest difference is also the most obvious: the medium through with the design is viewed.

The biggest difference is that with web design, people can interact with the design, manipulate it, change it, even to an extent become a part of it.

Resolution.

72dpi vs 300dpi

Other than that… they both have the same basic requirement of displaying content to the user in a way that the user wants to interact with the piece. Whether that interaction is clicking on a button or turning a page, so long as your call to action was met, it is good design.

I see the difference as similar to the difference between snowboarding and skiing.

Both are fundamentally achieving the same function, but the processes, balance, expertise and instincts are totally different.

A good skier and a good boarder can get to the bottom of the same slope in the same time. Swap their tools over, and its a different story.

The biggest difference between print & web design is the lack of control. In print you know exactly what the final printed version will look like, Your design will look as well as your vision is.

In web design you have to be comfortable with the loss of some control. The final users have control over font sizes and background colors. Plus you have to consider different browsers, internet speeds, platforms and browser speeds.

Secondly, with print you have a very good idea what the audience will be. With the web, once it is live on the web anyone in the world can see it, so crafting a design that make sense for your target audience but making it understandable for anyone who comes to the site is very different than print.

Web Design is easily displayed differently on consumer's computers.
In Print you define what it looks and feels like. And that way it stays.

Graphic design is about aesthetics. It's about communicating creatively with shapes and colours. Web design is about communicating through interface design. Aesthetics are also important with with webdesign, but it has to support the interface filosophy.

graphic design - beauty
web design - beauty & code

The web is not print.

One of the biggest differences is the focus on intended media/platform as well the restrictions those environments impose.

First and first, graphic design and web design are 2 different Medias which in turn there are differences in legibility type faces, color and images. They both have different ways of communicating. With Print or Graphic Design you have control over the dimensions of material such as a brochure. With Print no matter where that piece goes it will always be the same size and color. However in web design you have to design to the majority of visitors screen resolution, internet connection speed, among a whole host of other things making sure the colors that are used are "web safe" so it can look the same across all platforms (ie. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome) I’ve also found that background images in some of these internet browsers don’t show up at all and sometimes positions change. So be sure to check all. Web Design gives you the freedom of adding movement with animation where as Graphic Design (print) you would have to create movement with static imagery. Also another thing in web design there are a million and one ways to do one thing--for example layouts. Do you want div layers or tables should the layout be in CSS? What programming language is best use for contact forms? Do I want animation? Oh the dilemma!

There are similarities in basic principles of Design for instance hierarchy. This is most important. What do you want your viewer to first, second and so forth? With both Web and Graphic Design the main objective is designing to communicate information to your target audience in the easiest way for them to understand and grasp quickly, although copy is a whole other topic in itself.
Another Design Principle is the use of the Grid and Unity. Your layout must look uniform throughout the whole website. Most websites use a 3 column grid, but you can use 1, 2 or however many you need to present the information most clearly and effectively. With web design a viewer only sees 1 page at a time where as in some print materials a reader maybe looking at a spread.
The process is a little different from I have found as both Graphic Designer and Web Designer. The part I like about web design is skipping the whole printing process and making sure I convert my files from RGB to CMYK along with making sure my files for print is in 300 dpi. For those who may not know your computer screen is always in 72dpi and RGB. For printed materials use images that are 300dpi or more and is in CMYK. You cannot convert a 72 dpi image to 300 dpi it just becomes blurry, but you can convert a 300dpi image to 72dpi.

I could go on and on. :-)

Graphic Design would focus on how to design graphically pleasing layouts. You would learn about color theory, typefaces, the relationship between design elements when placed on a page and just generally how to make things, either printed or displayed in another way, look appealing.

Web Design would require many of the skills of a good graphic designer but also, you'd need to learn how to write web pages. You'd probably start by learning HTML (hyper text mark up language) which is the scripting language web pages are made up of. You'd move on to current and updated languages like XML and cascading style sheets

I think the biggest difference is really the "construction" or production of the designs. But in the end, the core purpose is to display information in a functional and aesthetically appealing way.

Graphic Design relies more on form, and Web Design relies more on function.

Hello! I think the web is a small part of the giant we call graphic design. Will evolve into something different in a short time. Internet is not going to exist forever.
Greets.

I think it's relative to the designer.

Graphic design is the design of components used in web design.

Web Design is, placing the different graphic components to convey the message.

I once heard design described as the spit and polish, but not the shoe. Web design, is the spit and polish on a unisex footwear piece whose colors transcend seasons and can go with anything.

Graphic design has many more capabilities, It doesnt have to rely on CSS to let things happen and expand correctly. You dont have to hope to goodness that the javascript doesn't bash heads between the menu and your tabs, or other fancy doo-dad. You dont have to take into account the usability aspect of it. You simply have to make it.

Graphics offer you freedon to do whatever you want and explore and create everything you can think of.

Web makes you realize your canvas has to be a certain size, that people don't like to scroll horizontally.

You have absolute freedom of design with creation of graphics. Where as web must constrain. to a typical monitor resolution. Usually with areas dedicated to things liek menus, graphics, text and more. You can step outside these boundaries but you usually risk making your site innaccessible with giant file sizes.

The things that matter are that you want peopel to go into the site, and you want the people who see your graphic art to explore the art itself. To notice that theres more to your swoosh than a simple swoosh, that theres little sparle balls in each and every swoosh, more than just a simple layer style to make it look magical,

Web you want to inspire people to trust your brand, to make people feel safe with you as their provider, and to make sure that they achieve your goal of learning.

The difference between web design and graphic design is the target audience.

Hello there :)

I guess the big difference between Graphic design and Web design is the limit of creative work there's put in the design. Webdesign has an limited on the design part and Graphic design makes your whole area as big as you (designer) want it to be.

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Jeroen van Eerden (@jayve1)

Interface.

Graphic design I think is largely how you experience something, while web takes cues from that but introduces interactivity; and a graphical experience + interactivity = creates and interface.

Just my 2.5 cents

web design gives you the warm fuzzy feeling of finishing the job just to have the client ask for another dang button!

for me there isnt much of a difference from the designer point of view..... web design can have graphics into it.... like in header, footer...so on... from the audience point of view(if i can say so) it can range from print to browser medium....

Graphic : Art
Web Design : Business

Graphic Design has been around for ages - cavepaintings even, think of the Crests of middle age for insance.

Web, on the other hand, is quite a new profession, and allthough they seem to blend, and often blend well - there are a few differences.

1. Web Design: limited to a specific medium - the web. Also, not only about the visuals, often techniques are fundamental.

2. Graphic Design: Graphic Design is really anything you see around you. Logos, billboards, brochures, photos, ads, magazines, business cards, maps, traffic signs, and much much more. It's more about visuals than techniques.

The biggest difference between web and graphic design is interactivity.

Someone who views a flat design in a magazine interacts with it on a more subconscious, aesthetic level,
while someone who views a web page, needs to not only feel an aesthetic connection with the design, but also needs to easily navigate and interact with the interface.

Web design is a harder medium for me, because it uses both the left and right brain. Coding, logicality and art form all mesh when creating a great web page.

webdesign is about the technical crap making the art work on a screen, graphic is all about beauty on a paper. Graphic is something you can hold and cherish while webdesign is something you can easily share.

Everything.

I think the biggest differece is that graphic design is about creating somthing that is visualy appealing, wheather it gives a message (e.g. logo), advertises somthing or describes somthing. On the other hand web design is about satisfying users, where interact with websites and application in order to find information, purchase somthing, or get inspired. Designing for the web required you to think like a user, what would you do? where would you click? is this easy to use? etc.

72 dpi is a big difference.

Graphic Design: Strictly a visual function.
Web Design: Visual function + programmatic function.

The difference to me between regular Graphic Design and Web Design is thinking about usability, accessibility and interaction.

On a poster, it is kind of static. Most people can see it, understand it, appreciate it. But when it comes to the web, so many more things come into play - Does it make sense? Does it load quickly? Is it easy to use? Does it communicate very quickly? Does it engage its user and encourage them to spend time with it?

Its hard to create a site that is both easy to use and interesting to use. The best sites out there manage to do it. The great sites are when they're fast, fresh, useable and innovative.

The sites that are becoming more and more popular lately are the ones that only have a loose set of rules defining them, allowing the user to mold it and change it to their liking. Movable text areas, changable pictures. These things are shaping our internet this year - And who knows what we'll have next year.

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Grafic design is design that is focussing on the graphical part of the design. Meaning it focusses more on how the brochure etc looks and how its going to correspondent with the client. What colour will attract most people and how can we stimulate them to buy products. In graphic design the design represents the brand. Therefore it is very impotent what layout you use, what usage of colour or what font.

Web design is focussed on functionality. The graphical part of the design is also important but not as important as the functionality. The design must be both simple and good looking. People should be able to navigate fast and easy though the website, getting the information they need about the brand or the service they are trying to get. No one wants to search hours on a site trying to find information. If the site isn't functional at all people will just look for an other company, which will be only a click away.

Graphic design is for form; web design is for function.

The big difference between Graphic and Web Design is the interactivity. Web is a world where the user can move, select and see only what he wants, he has the power of choice.

The big difference between Graphic Design and Web Design, is the interactivity. Web is a world where the user can move, select and see only what he wants, he has the power of choice.

Damn, this website writes itself!

Well,
Webdesign is much more than just "design". Your graphic design should look good and creative to convince others; people just look at graphic designs. Webdesign must convince in different aspects. A website visitor doesnt just "look" at the design, he USES the design. That's why a webdesign must be attractive, functionable (combining modern web features) and awesome. It has to be really creative and unique but simple as well, because every day hundred of people could see your website, but they dont visit your website to look at it - they visit your website to USE it. They want to feel good and modern when they read your articles, they need reasons to come back and they need reasons for not feeling bored.

graphic design: movement with design
web design: design as function

I work for a mobile media company and find that RESOLUTION is my big factor with designing for the web. Space, availability and getting your message across in a very small space most of the time. In that regard it frees you and constrains you. where as you don't need large files to work with, you have the challenge of making your work look clear and powerful in a tiny work-space.

300dpi vs. 72dpi
I work for a non profit, and am always asked to design a site i do not know how to develop, but want it to be great, i have great web dev/designer friends and am always bouncing ideas off them and trying to create and do better. then i pass them on to a developer.... frustrating, need something practical...

Its as simple as this..

Web: transient, meaning its changing/changeable
Graphic Design: Once approved it all over...

Well it`s simple,

Web Design is the art before ART which means that in order to show your Graphic Design(s) you first need Web Design.

P.S. This is the internet approach.

Web Design is made on screen for the screen. Graphic design is made on screen for the paper.

...but you can ruin the experience of enjoy both works spilling coffee on them.

Graphic design is more personal and uses the extra senses of touch, smell and feel. So to achieve an effect in graphic design is a lot easier.

Web design on the other hand, cannot make use of the extra senses .. it has to totally rely on visuals and sounds. And therefore as an art form it is more difficult and more applaudable because web designers are constantly looking for ways to overcome that gap of not having those extra senses.

web design is an effort to make the website looking good on browser / monitor where graphic design is a component of design from online to offline presentation.

When printing, colors will be colors, margins will be margins, fonts will be fonts and everything will remain the same no matter who takes it up and reads it. Be it a book, a poster or a pamphlet, it will be there, available to anybody and it will look the same. Online documents dream of this, being able to be watched likewise not mattering where you read it (browser inconsistencies, font unavailability, etc).

When online your content is (or can be) dynamic, the same page can display lots of information that either change the next time you open the same website or change right before your eyes. Paper dreams to be this flexible and would benefit of constant updates.

Those are it for me. A lovechild between this two mediums, IMHO, would be great.

What i think the main difference is..

With graphic design you can know (or choose) what the
destiny for your design is, like:

- The size of your design (A4, A1, etc)
- Is it a book, magazine or a simple flyer?
- The structure were you print it on
- Etc..

You can choose at what the user is looking at.

And with web design you can't know
(or decide in most cases) on what type
of screen the user is looking at.

- Is it a mobile phone, a 15 inch screen,
30 inch screen or a big lcd tv?
- What is the quality of the screen the user is looking at?
- How are the colors? They will never be te same at all
the different screens..
- Etc..

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Thank you so much for your future answers :-(. Seamus.