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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

The takeaway


Responsive design is the most popular way to design a website cross-devices. It is easier and simpler, but, it can be restrictive in terms of design.

Pros

Cons

Seamless and uniform

Less design control

SEO friendly

Advertisements don't work properly

Easier to implement

Loading takes a bit longer

 

Adaptive design will be chosen for big infrastructure or complex websites for better control over the design and a better user experience across devices.

Pros

Cons

Allows designers to build a better design and user experience

More work in terms of designing and implementing websites

Designers can optimize advertisements on the device

Challenging for SEO purposes

Loading speed is faster

 

There is no good way or bad way to do things. Responsive and Adaptive design are just concepts that are good to understand. You can even use both of them in a single website, using Responsive design for PCs, laptops and tablets, and Adaptive design for mobiles. Just remember this: when it comes to designing websites,...