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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 design


Our home page will contain the following:

  1. Header: We will learn how to create and stylize a navigation section, with a logo and a menu on the right-hand side.
  2. A hero Image:  In web design, it describes a front banner image, usually a big image.  We'll learn how to create a full-width background image with a big title.
  3. A preview of the Blog with six blog posts: We'll learn how to display three responsive columns with images and content.
  4. An ABOUT US section: We will learn how to add a gradient to an image.
  1. APARTNERS section: We will learn how to center content on the page.
  2. A footer: Basically the same thing as the header, but at the bottom.

You can check the image of the home page in full size in the resources files I provided, in Resources | Screens. There is also the Sketch source file of the project.

I strongly recommend you to install Sketch or Figma if you're not using one of these design tools yet. The Sketch app is commonly used for web design projects and can be downloaded at http...