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Practical Web Design

By : Philippe Hong
Book Image

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

TinyPNG


One of my absolute favorite designer tools is TinyPNG. As its name suggests, TinyPNG compresses a PNG or JPEG image to reduce the file size. However, it does so without degrading the visual quality of your files—it's like magic:

TinyPNG (https://tinypng.com/)

To achieve maximum speed for your web projects, it's important to reduce file size wherever possible. There's little doubt that image files are often the biggest files on a website. This is why: TinyPNG is an amazing option—it reduces your file sizes (often by 50 percent or more) without compromising on visuals. Smaller file sizes not only equal faster loading times but also save your bandwidth.

TinyPNG is lightning fast to use, and if you sign up for a Pro account, you can upload up to 25 MB at one time. With the free service, you are limited to 20 images with a maximum of 5 MB each.