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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
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Contributers
Preface
Index

Icons


Icons are everywhere now, you can find them on road signs, keyboards, interfaces, and so on. Icons help us to better understand and interpret information. It serves as an important visual aid in any graphical communication. As a designer, knowing where and when to use icons to serve your design is really important and crucial. The following are some quick tips to start with.

Describing in a nutshell  

It's interesting how icons can quickly summarize what your text is about. Web users have become more proficient at scanning pages for content that is relevant and interesting to them. So by just looking at the icons, they will quickly jump into the information they want. For example, in this example: 

(uber.com)

The icons quickly describe what the content is about with a beautiful effect. 

Drawing attention of the users

A website without icons can be quite boring. Imagine a magazine without images, how boring would it be? It's the same logic for icons within websites. Furthermore, with beautiful...