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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

Responsive web design


The first time we heard the term responsive web design, it was from Ethan Marcotte in 2011. In his book on responsive design, he described a new way of designing for the desktop but also for the mobile interface, basically proposing to use the same content, but a different layout for the design on each screen. The introduction of the 960 grid system also helped this responsive issue (https://960.gs). The most popular versions being used were either 12 or 16 columns. It became a standard for designers to design their websites using 12 columns for desktop and downgrading progressively for mobile viewing. With the introduction of media queries with CSS3, it became easier for designers to design websites for mobile screens.

We will be exploring this subject in further detail in the next chapter.

Media queries is a CSS3 module allowing content rendering to adapt to conditions such as screen resolution (for example, a smartphone screen compared to a computer screen). From left to right, we have the iPhone, iPad, and desktop version. This is a perfect example of a grid system and media queries (https://www.wired.com/2011/09/the-boston-globe-embraces-responsive-design/):