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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

What is Bootstrap?


Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JS library that helps you build websites and apps very easily. It is a library of components that you can reuse instead of re-creating every component over and over again. Bootstrap is responsive and mobile first; this is essentially what Bootstrap is all about, and why it has become so popular with web developers. Now, let's say the developers are creating different versions of their website for different devices; just by applying small amounts of code to the pages, the sites will be displayed correctly on any device, which saves time and additional cost.

There are major updates every couple of years. Bootstrap 2 was officially released in 2012, then was reasonably quickly replaced with Bootstrap 3, which was released in 2013. Then, of course, there came Bootstrap 4 in 2016. The more stable it becomes, the longer the gaps between the releases. Hopefully, it won't be too long before Bootstrap 5 arrives. 

Bootstrap 4 is still very...