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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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By: LaGrone
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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

Introduction to responsive web design

Let's be honest, you already know what responsive web design means. But for the sake of the age-old tradition of pedagogy, I'll explain. Responsive web design is designing a website to optimize for multiple different viewports. What this means is that in this part of the book, I'll be discussing various techniques for creating a webpage that will look good on mobile devices, tablets, desktops, and laptops, and so on.

I'm not a fortune-teller, but I suspect that mobile devices are not disappearing any time soon. In fact, in my work, I've seen the traffic move from desktop to mobile. In many areas, we see that mobile is the primary tool for people's search for information. If it's not the primary one, it's at least a growing audience. Or else, they are the audience that leaves a site that doesn't have a mobile Web presence. Therefore, the demand for web developers who understand responsive design is paramount to the industry. This skill is a must-have if you want to stay current in the developer workforce.

In this chapter, I will discuss responsive elements, layouts, media, typography, and navigation. You can jump ahead to a section you are particularly interested in or read the whole thing from beginning to end. If you follow along through the entire chapter, you should have a good starter template for a responsive website. We'll learn the following:

  • Responsive web design basics
  • The user agent
  • The media query
  • Responsive images with CSS
  • Responsive images with srcset
  • Responsive video
  • Responsive typography
  • Responsive layouts
  • Responsive menus with CSS and JavaScript
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