Practical Web Design

▶Book Description
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.

▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Understand the importance of web design and the basic design components
⦁ Learn HTML5 and CSS3
⦁ Difference between adaptive and responsive web design
⦁ Learn how to create your first website
⦁ Add interaction and dynamic content to your website with JavaScript and JQuery
⦁ Implement Bootstrap Framework in your project
⦁ Get familiar with server-side rendering

▶Key Features
⦁ A fun-filled book with incrementing projects that would help you learn and adapt the fundamentals of web development
⦁ Bring your web design to life with the help of HTML, CSS, JQuery, and learn to kick-start your future projects with Bootstrap
⦁ Explore popular web development techniques such as responsive, adaptive, and material design and initiate yourself with Vue.js

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who wants to learn about web development regardless of previous experience. It's perfect for complete beginners with zero experience; it's also great for anyone who does have some experience in a few technologies (such as HTML and CSS) but not all of them.

▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Evolution of Web Design, is about the history of web design, from the beginning of the web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, how the World Wide Web started, to its evolution now.

⦁ Chapter 2, Web Design and its Components, is about components in web design. This book will help you understand each component, their usage, and why it's useful in your design.

⦁ Chapter 3, Website Designing Workflow, is about web design workflow. This book will go through all the processes from start to launch, from concept to launch, step by step.

⦁ Chapter 4, Responsive Versus Adaptive Design, compares the Responsive design and Adaptive design. It will show you which process will suit your project best.

⦁ Chapter 5, Learning HTML5, teaches you the basic of HTML5, how to build and structure an HTML page.

⦁ Chapter 6, Learning CSS3, helps you to understand the fundamentals of CSS, how to stylize your HTML page with CSS.

⦁ Chapter 7, Building Your Own Website, goes through all the processes of building a website and introduces the HTML Boilerplate and help you step your project correctly.

⦁ Chapter 8, Making Our Website Responsive, shows you step by step how to make your website Responsive with an introduction to jQuery.

⦁ Chapter 9, Adding Interaction and Dynamic Content, add interaction and dynamic content to your website and teaches you how to call an API and show information on your website.

⦁ Chapter 10, Optimizing and Launching Our Website, teaches you how to optimize your website using different tools and analytics.

⦁ Chapter 11, What is Bootstrap?, explores all the possibilities with Bootstrap Framework, including Bootstrap Grid System, buttons, and forms.

⦁ Chapter 12, Building a Website with Bootstrap, builds a website with Bootstrap Framework and helps you understand the difference and the advantage of it.

⦁ Chapter 13, Introduction to Client-Side Rendering, introduces you the world of client-side rendering, with a quick example of a Weather Project.

⦁ Chapter 14, Tools to Help Your Workflow, lists the best tools to enhance your design workflow.