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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

Adaptive design


While Responsive design works to create a universal look and feel with one design that varies from device to device, an Adaptive design has a different approach. Adaptive design is designed to detect the user device and to redirect the user to a website designed especially for this resolution.

First introduced by Aaron Gustafson in 2011 in his book Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experience with Progressive Enhancement, an Adaptive design has the main difference of having a totally different website on specific resolutions. Resizing the browser has no impact on the design.

The best example of Adaptive design isAmazon.com, which displays an entirely new layout of the website on tablet and mobile:

Amazon Website in desktop, tablet and mobile.

If you try to resize your browser, you can see that the design doesn't change any lower than 999 px.

Note

A tool that you can use to test the Responsiveness or Adaptiveness of a website is the inspect tool of Google Chrome. You can just right...