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Web Design Blueprints

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Web Design Blueprints

Overview of this book

The book delivers simple instructions on how to design and build modern Web using the latest trends in web development. You will learn how to design responsive websites, created with modern Flat User Interface design patterns, build deep-scrolling websites with parallax 3D effects, and roll-your-own single-page applications. Finally, you'll work through an awesome chapter that combines them all. Each chapter features actual lines of code that you can apply right away.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Web Design Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Starting off


I would like to use some of our previous work in order to shave some pages off the chapter and to build on top of what we already know. This will use the principles of responsive design you learned, but we will update some DIV elements as I take you through the chapter. We will make a simple page layout, and there will be no need for any floating or responsive layout elements. To make it much simpler, we want it to look very modern, so we'll use the flat UI colors and basic layout we used in the previous chapter.

The HTML markup

The work will, however, ramp up pretty early, so we need to pick up speed from very early on in the chapter. The initial layout should have a <main> block as the direct child of the body element, containing five sections as shown here:

<head></head>
<body>
<main>
<section>
</section>
<section>
</section>
<section>
</section>
<section>
</section>
<section>
</section&gt...