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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

Pros and cons of server and client-side rendering


The next two sections are a quick a summary of the pros and cons of each, so you can decide which you'll use for each project.

Server-side rendering

Pros:

  • Better SEO because search engines can crawl the site
  • The initial page loads faster
  • Good for static sites

Cons:

  • Frequent server requests
  • Slower rendering
  • Page has to reload every time

Client-side rendering

Pros:

  • Faster rendering after the initial load
  • Good for web applications
  • Fewer requests to the server

Cons:

  • Bad SEO if not implemented correctly
  • The initial load may require more time
  • Requires an external library in most cases