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Web Design Blueprints

Web Design Blueprints

By : LaGrone
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Web Design Blueprints

Web Design Blueprints

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Overview of this book

The book delivers simple instructions on how to design and build modern Web using the latest trends in web development. You will learn how to design responsive websites, created with modern Flat User Interface design patterns, build deep-scrolling websites with parallax 3D effects, and roll-your-own single-page applications. Finally, you'll work through an awesome chapter that combines them all. Each chapter features actual lines of code that you can apply right away.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Responsive Web Design
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1. Responsive Web Design
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Introduction to responsive web design
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Getting familiar with the basics
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Using media queries for responsive design
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Working with responsive media
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Building responsive layouts
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Summary
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2. Flat UI
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2. Flat UI
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A brief history of flat design
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Flat UI color
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Creating a flat UI layout
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Summary
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3. Parallax Scrolling
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3. Parallax Scrolling
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Starting off
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Color classes
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Using SVG font icons
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Getting the fonts
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That's no moon!
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OMG, it's full of stars!
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Clouds, birds, and airplanes
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The rocket
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Terra firma
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Next up, the CSS
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Styling the objects with CSS
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Styling the ground objects
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Writing the JavaScript effects
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Setting the row height
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Spreading the objects
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Spreading the clouds
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Loading the page functions
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Smoothening the scroll
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Updating elements on the scroller
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Collecting the moving elements
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Creating functions for the element types
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Setting the left positions
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Creating the rocket's movement function
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Finally, moving the earth
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4. Single Page Applications
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4. Single Page Applications
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What is an SPA?
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Getting to work
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Getting the old files
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Object and function conventions
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Creating utility functions
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Working with the home structure
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Setting up other sections
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Performing housekeeping
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Creating a callBack function for the API
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5. The Death Star Chapter
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5. The Death Star Chapter
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Where to begin?
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Dropping in the parallax game
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Loading elements from JSON
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What can be done in the shared levels service
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Editing the home JavaScript
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Creating the other pages – credits and leaderboard
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Creating the second level
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Index
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Index

Chapter 1. Responsive Web Design

Welcome to Web Design Blueprints. This book is meant to introduce you to some really cool new web design patterns that have arisen in web development. In this book, you will learn how to create responsive websites, how to create websites using the principles of flat design, make deep-dive sites using parallax scrolling, and use Ajax in single-page apps. Finally, we'll combine all these together into an awesome choose-your-own-adventure-style game.

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