What is the difference between web page design and ...

Web page design is the layout of your site while web page programming is the coding of your site in order to have functionality.

both are almost similar because often web desgin is interrelated with web development. I know a web design company where web design and web development is worked by a single person who is me and i basically i am a web designer.

Design is basically that which we can see but programming is another thing which is not visible.

Web design covers what the audience sees (the front end) it is generally created via  Photoshop or another graphics package and finally cut up into its constituent parts to be referenced by the html etc.

Web Programming is the source code or (back end) and this can be done in html, php etc. It is the programming together with content (the text the audience sees) that is critical when it comes to good SEO. A Great Web Design Company should do all of these things

Design refers to the asthetic look of the website, layout colors pictures etc.

Programming refers to the functionality and behaviour of the site.

These are basically synonymous in terms that if you are looking to have Web work to be performed by a business or freelancer. 

The reason for this is because there are very few designers or developers/programmers that do not do both.  It is tough for a legitimate company and to offer only one and not the other.  Many times the term "website design" is preferred by those that do both because it is a more common term and speaks to the fact that what most clients seek is a great look-and feel.  (This is probably because this is what a client can see – most clients never see the backend code or databases.)  But the above does not mean that these companies are not great at building CMS-driven, dynamic, user-friendly sites, just because the company doing the work claims to primary be a “website design” company.

But if you wish to recognize a difference, here it is:
Website design = the frontend = graphics and layout that give a look and feel
Website development/programming = the backend, including PHP, HTML, SQL, etc.

To speak to the claim that “website design” is the most common term, here are the Google numbers of results for searches:

·      website design 230,000,000

·      website development 161,000,000

·      website programming 45,400,000

·      website designer 325,000,000

·      website developer 45,200,000

·      website programmer 16,900,000

Source: http://seattlenewmedia.com

Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic qualities.

And the way of making above functional with language binder is called web programming.