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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

CSS preprocessor – SCSS


LESS isn't the only CSS extension available. Check out syntactically awesome style sheets(SASS). It is a scripting language that's made up of two syntaxes: the originalindented syntax (given the .sass extension) and the newer SCSS syntax (given the .scss extension):

SCSS

No matter which version of CSS library you use, SASS is compatible with every one of them. Also, similar to LESS, SASS is open source and supported by a huge community of developers. Likewise, it's also backward compatible so that you can convert your CSS files.

So, why go with SASS over LESS? Depending on who you ask, SASS is much more popular and LESS is easier to use. It may boil down to whether you prefer Ruby or JavaScript. SASS is written in Ruby. However, LESS, which was originally written in Ruby, has ported to JavaScript. You'll need NodeJS to run LESS.