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Practical Web Design

You're reading from   Practical Web Design Learn the fundamentals of web design with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, and Vue.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395038
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philippe Hong Philippe Hong
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributers
Preface
1. Evolution of Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Web Design and its Components 3. Website-Designing Workflow 4. Responsive Versus Adaptive Design 5. Learning HTML5 6. Learning CSS3 7. Building Your Own Website 8. Making Our Website Responsive 9. Adding Interaction and Dynamic Content 10. Optimizing and Launching Our Website 11. What is Bootstrap? 12. Building a Website with Bootstrap 13. Introduction to Client-Side Rendering 14. Tools to Help Your Workflow 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Installing HTML Boilerplate


We're going to start a fresh, so let's create a new file for this project. What I like to do when I start a project is download an HTML Boilerplate. HTML5 Boilerplate is a frontend template, created to help you build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. You basically download one package, and it contains all the files you need to start a project.

Let's go to https://html5boilerplate.com/ to download the latest version of the template:

Click on Download v6.0.1 or higher.

Let's have a look at what's inside our package:

There are plenty of files in the folder. What we can see is that it contains all the essential files a website needs to work properly:

  • index.html: Our home page, the page where the user will land upon going to your website
  • The css folder: A folder for all our CSS files
  • The img folder: A folder for all our images
  • The js folder: A folder for all our JS files
  • favicon.ico: An icon that shows up at the left corner of a tab of a browser that indicates...
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