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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

Chapter 7. Building Your Own Website

Thefunpart has finally come. We're going to start implementing our website from A to Z. I will explain thoroughly through each step. Here's the list of what is going to be covered in this chapter: 

  • Installation of HTML Boilerplate
  • Setting up our project with images, fonts, and normalize.css
  • Creating our header and stylising it 
  • Creating our hero section and learn about the positioning in CSS
  • Creating our Blog section
  • Adding an about section
  • Creating a Partner section
  • Creating a footer section

First, let's see the design we're going to implement. If you can remember, we saw a little preview back in Chapter 4, Responsive Versus Adaptive Design.