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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

Designing the menu


In this section, we will take a look at how to hide the desktop menu and show a hamburger icon instead when working on mobiles or tablets:

The design of the mobile view

If we click on the icon, a menu opens on the right-hand side:

Menu opened on mobile

To do that, we will first need to hide the menu on the mobile version and the tablet  version. 

At the end of the header section in our CSS, add the following code:

/* Tablet Styles */
@media only screen and (max-width: 1024px) {
  header {
    display: none;
  }
}

Now we want to show the hamburger-menu on mobile. We will need to create a div tag in HTML and show it only on a mobile, with CSS:

<div class="hamburger-menu">
   <img src="img/hambuger-icon.svg">
</div>    

We will place this just before the ending of our header tag </header>.

In CSS, we will need to hide  the hamburger in desktop view and show it only on mobile view:

.hamburger-menu {
  display: none;
}
/* Tablet Styles */
@media only screen and...