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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

Colors


Colors have an enormous importance in web design. According to Kissmetrics, when you view a color, your eyes communicate with a region of the brain known as the hypothalamus, then, in turn, it will send a signal to the pituitary gland and finally to the thyroid gland. This signals the release of hormones that cause fluctuation in mood, emotion, and resulting in behavior. Interesting, isn't it?  

Also from Kissmetrics, research has shown that it takes just 90 seconds for a site visitor to form a judgment or opinion. Further to that, 62-90% of that interaction is determined by the color of a product alone.

You should now understand why colors are extremely important and why it's crucial to choose them in the right way, at the right time, with the right audience, and with the right purpose.

What colors mean

Each color draws out a specific emotion in each person. Although, this can differ according to culture, background, or preference. Here is a quick reference of color meanings:

  • Yellow:...