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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

Adding the hero section


Afterimplementingour header,we can now go the next step,whichisthe heroSection.The herosectionis,inweb design, usually composedwitha big image,a title,a description,andaCall toAction(CTA).Itservesasan overview of the website because it's the first thing the visitor will see.

In our design, we have the following:

It's quite simple. It's composed of a background image, with a gradient overlay and some text with a button on the left. If we try to mark out the outline of each block, we could have something like this:

Maybe this can help you visualize what we're trying to do in HTML/CSS.Let's start with the HTML:

We can start first by creating a section (purple) that will hold everything:

<sectionid="hero">
</section>

We'll add an id so it's easier to call upon it later.

We now have to create a container (fuschia) that will contain all the elements inside but also be centered horizontally. For that, we'll create a div with the class container:

<section id="hero...