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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 client-side rendering?


Client-side rendering, on the other, is rendered with JavaScript. Instead of getting the HTML by itself, you're getting a simple HTML structure but with JavaScript to render the rest of the HTML with your browser.

This is a new approach and has gained a lot of traction lately with the development of framework from companies such as Facebook and Google.

The main difference is that when you click to take a look at another page, the JavaScript renders the page instead of requesting a new page from the server. This is a much faster way to load content, as it will only load content that it needs instead of the whole page. 

The downside of it is that it's very bad SEO-wise, since the content is not rendered until the page is loaded into the browser. This can be fixed, but not in an easy way yet.