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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

Goal identification


Within this first stage, you need to identify the website's end goal. By communicating with the client and asking them questions about their business and its goals.

What is the purpose of the website?

This is the right moment to identify the problem to be solved or to set a goal for the website. Sell tickets or increase ticket sales? See what your client wants and find the best solution for it. You also need to do your own investigation, dig into their website, and search for anything that needs to be fixed. With all the fundamentals we studied before, you're now able to see what is good and what is bad.

Who is the website for?

The best way to simplify the design process and the decision making is to know your target audience. There are plenty of ways to know your audience. You can either ask the client, track with different analytics, or check out previous reports on the same market that will help you in that phase

Is this useful for our audience?

Your client should have...