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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

Usability


We talked earlier about how design has evolved into a user-centered design. This is exactly what we will be examining now, so what is usability you ask? Usability is simply the attribute that defines how easy the user interface is to use. It's generally measured with five components:

  • Learnability: How easy is it for the user to achieve basic tasks when landing on the website?
  • Efficiency: After learning, how efficient is it for the user to redo the tasks or achieve other tasks?
  • Memorability: How easy is it for the user, after not using the website for a while, to return, and use the website again at proficiency?
  • Error-tolerant: How easy is it for the user to recover from errors?
  • Satisfaction: How pleasant and satisfying is it to use the design?

Over the past few years, users have gotten used to certain standards in web design and don't tolerate websites that load slowly, are ugly to look at, or difficult to navigate through anymore. If your website is not usable, there are plenty out...