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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 a favicon


Favicons are those little icons you see on browser tabs and on your bookmarks bar. They are part of the identity of any website and make users recognize your website:

Favicon of the Dribbble website

Don't skip this step. There is a very easy online tool to do this. We just need an image to serve as our icon, so let's do that for now. Let's go to https://realfavicongenerator.net/, which is the favicon generator. With this, we can create icons for browsers or even design them according to the different operating systems that it will run on. We just need to pick our image. In this case, we're going to use the logo provided in the assets folder, and find the image Logo_Square.png. Click Select your Favicon picture on the website and upload the logo. 

Here's what we have: 

It provides us with a bunch of icons for iOS, Android, and Windows phones with some customization, but this is not really what matters. What really matters is what's at the bottom of the page:

We will now click...