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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

Adding a dynamic Instagram feed


The end goal here is to be able to implement your own Instagram feed by connecting to the Instagram API and pulling out information from them.

From a design point of view, we want to show a feed of our latest photo from Instagram after our footer, with a hover effect of opacity when you move your mouse over it.

It should look something like this: 

The final design of our Instagram feed

To achieve that, first, we need to have an Instagram account. If you already have one, you can use your own. Otherwise, I've created an account for the exercise:

Our awesome Instagram feed

Installing Instafeed.js

I have, beforehand, uploaded a couple of images of racing. The next step is to install a plugin called Instafeed.js. Let's go to the website to download it: http://instafeedjs.com/:

Instafeed.js home page

Right click on download and click on Save link As.... Place the file in the vendor folder, located in the js folder in our Web Project

For each plugin, the installation is...