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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

Designing


I always use the same framework when designing a project: 

  1. Get inspiration
  2. Improve
  3. Invent

Let me explain what I do for each step: 

Get inspiration

I really think that inspiration is one of the main parts of design creation. Looking and gathering inspiration is crucial for me, as I need those inspirations to make my own design by taking a few pieces of design that I'll find cool or relevant for this type of project.

The following are a few websites that I use to find inspiration:

  • Awwwards
  • CSSDesignawards
  • FWA
  • Dribbble
  • Behance

Then I'll use BukketApp to grab images and create a mood board for this specific project.

Improve

Once you have your mood board, you can start to tweak and improve the design. Like a puzzle, try to compose by remixing shapes, colors, and so on. This is the most fun and creative part, because it's up to your imagination and the amount of flexibility you have to create something unique and of high quality.

Invent

When you finally get something from the previous step, you can now...