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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

Chapter 2. Web Design and its Components

InChapter 1, Evolution of Web Design we looked at how web design has evolved since the first web page of Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. Throughout those years, we saw new elements and styles emerging in website design. Some elements will help the user navigate through the website, some will help tell a story, but most importantly, all of them have the potential to improve the visitor's experience. In this chapter, I will help you understand each component, its usage, and why it's useful. Let's dive into it!

The following is a list of the components we'll be covering:

  • Grids
  • Call to Action
  • Breadcrumb
  • Search bar
  • Icons
  • Modal
  • Typography
  • Colors
  • Usability
  • Consistency