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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

Creating the ABOUT US section


This section is not very complex. Let's check out the design:

If we use our block analyzer, we can have something such as this:

What we need to do:

  • Make the content vertically centered
  • Align the text on the left
  • Have a background image covering the entire section

The best way to align elements vertically is, as we saw earlier, to use CSS flexbox.

Let's create our HTML. After our blog section, we're going to add our about-us section:

<section id="about-us">

</section>

Inside this section, as usual, we're going to add our container:

<section id="about-us">
          <div class="container">

          </div>
</section>

And inside our container, we'll create our two blocks that will contain our big title and our description:

<section id="about-us">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="about-us-title">
        <h3>The love of cars</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="about-us-desc">
      <h4&gt...