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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

Google analytics


Now that our website is online, we can still work on it, because the launch is not the end of the story. The only thing you need to cover is site maintenance. This means that you should keep track of your website's success and monitor your users' behavior. How do we do this? We use a very powerful tool called Google Analytics. With this software, you will be able to monitor statistics like the number of visits your website receives, the amount of time your visitors stay, the average number of page views for each visitor, and many other useful statistics:

Google Analytics website

Then, using this data, you can make adjustments to the website to make it better. I will now install Google Analytics on the website I just uploaded to show you how easy it is. You need to start off by creating an account for Google Analytics, but that's easy if you already have a Google account. Once you have your Google Analytics account created, you need to create an account to get a tracking code...