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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

Grids


If you remember, we talked about grids in the first chapter. Grids help a lot with Responsive design, but their use does not stop there. Designers have used grids since print design, for books, publications, and especially magazines. To simply define it, a grid system is a system that helps designers structure their design, content, and imagery, and make it more readable and manageable.

Understanding grids is very important because they will help you design in proportion, balancing between the elements in your design, organizing modules, and sections. And more importantly, it will help the user navigate with the consistency and familiarity of your design grid:

The Grid system website (http://thegridsystem.net/), is a very useful tool for every grid system, and is a must-know.

The cons

There are always advantages and disadvantages on everything, and the grids don't escape that rule. The first disadvantage of grids for most people and especially those who are new to design is that they may...