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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

CodeKit


CodeKit is another tool for building websites. Basically, CodeKit automates a lot of developer tasks so that building a website doesn't take forever. It compiles any and every language, so CodeKit is incredibly easy to work with:

CodeKit (https://codekitapp.com/)

I love CodeKit for the simple reason that you don't have to refresh your browser after changes. CodeKit automatically does it for you. All browsers are supported, all devices are supported.

Another reason to drop everything and go CodeKit? Site optimization is so easy. CodeKit allows you to minimize your images by up to 70 percent in one click. You can use it to minify scripts and reduce HTTP requests. These types of optimizations are some of the best ways to ensure a  speedy website.

CodeKit's drag and drop user interface is slick and friendly.