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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

Installing HTML Boilerplate


We're going to start a fresh, so let's create a new file for this project. What I like to do when I start a project is download an HTML Boilerplate. HTML5 Boilerplate is a frontend template, created to help you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. You basically download one package, and it contains all the files you need to start a project.

Let's go to https://html5boilerplate.com/ to download the latest version of the template:

Click on Download v6.0.1 or higher.

Let's have a look at what's inside our package:

There are plenty of files in the folder. What we can see is that it contains all the essential files a website needs to work properly:

  • index.html: Our home page, the page where the user will land upon going to your website
  • The css folder: A folder for all our CSS files
  • The img folder: A folder for all our images
  • The js folder: A folder for all our JS files
  • favicon.ico: An icon that shows up at the left corner of a tab of a browser that indicates...