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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

Typography


I still remember when designing my first website, fonts in web design were very restrictive. A few default fonts were available and we had to stick within most cases with the super neutral Arial font. With the font-face roll-out from CSS3, it was now possible to add custom fonts, such a relief for designers! Typography is very important in design, it can alter the perception of your visitors. Using a serif and sans-serif font can literally change the feeling of a website. A study was shown in the New York Times (https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/) comparing fonts by their truthfulness. Take a look at this first graph: 

Weighted Agreement

You can see that people tend to believe the information written in Baskerville more than any other fonts:

 

Weighted Disagreement

Typography can really play a role in your design. Unfortunately, I'm not here to do an entire course in typography, but here are some quick tips to choose the best typeface...