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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

Our main tool


Before we actually start coding, we need to download a text editor. It's a program to basically write all our code. In this course, we will use Atom; you can download the tool via this URL (https://atom.io/). The program is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and it is completely free!

If you are familiar with another text editor, it's completely fine to use your one. A few other editors are also very nice and free, such as Sublime Text 3 (https://www.sublimetext.com/),  Bracket (http://brackets.io/), and Dreamweaver (https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html).

Once you have your text editor, we can start the course:

The ATOM Text Editor 

First things first, we need to create a folder to put all our project files in there. Let's create this folder and call it Racing Club Website. Once you've done that, open this folder as our project folder. Click on File | Add Project Folder…:

Now that we have our super text editor installed and our project folder set, let's talk about...