What is the difference between web design and web development?

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people use the terms web design and web development pretty interchangeably and actually confuse them a lot of times but they're actually two different things web design is the part of the process where a designer works with a client to understand what kind of pages and content you need to have on a website and then what how do they actually look like what are the images colors fonts how is the layout going to look like then we're moving into the web development part of the process where it's actually taking the design and coding it turning it into HTML CSS and making sure that it works in a browser it's responsive and people can actually use it it's interactive now today you actually don't have to physically write down the code you have tools to help you write that code and that also means that a lot of web designers can actually do the web development themselves so when a client would hire a web designer they would actually take care of both the web design and the web development process however they are two separate steps in the process