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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

Installing Bootstrap 


The first thing we will need to do is download Bootstrap. There are any ways to download it. Let's head to the download page to check it out. Click on the Download button on the homepage. Now you can take a look at the different methods of downloading the latest version of Bootstrap:

Downloading Bootstrap

The first method is to download the Compiled version of Bootstrap. Your version will depend on when you take this course, but always take the latest version of Bootstrap. 

You can also download the source version of Bootstrap with all the files, but, most of the time, you'll only need the compiled files, because it's quicker and easier to get Bootstrap up and running. 

If you scroll down a little bit, you would notice BoostrapCDN. Bootstrap also provides a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that will host the latest version of Bootstrap in a server, so you can paste only the URL without having to host the files on your server. It's pretty good, as your users will not have...