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Practical Web Design

By : Philippe Hong
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Practical Web Design

By: Philippe Hong

Overview of this book

Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributers
Preface
Index

Launching our website


Our website is now ready to be shared with the world. We have come such a long way, and now we are almost at the end. Launching our website is super easy to do. We just need to follow these three steps.

Buying a domain name

First, we need to choose and buy a domain name. For our website, that could be www.racingclub.com. Then, we need to buy web hosting; think of it as a folder on the internet where we'll put all our files. To ensure that our website runs smoothly, we need the right amount of bandwidth. That is the amount of data transfer we are allowed within a certain time period.

Once we have both of those things, we just need to upload our website to our web space, and then we are ready to go. There are many domain registration companies and web-hosting companies. Of course, I will not tell you which one you should choose. All I can tell you is that I have used namecheap.com to both register the domain name and buy web hosting. The service there was always great, but...