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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788395038

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Philippe Hong

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

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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

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Index

Introduction of Flash

Flash, previously Macromedia Flash and currently Adobe Flash, was created in 1996. It was like a renaissance for web design. People would probably make fun of you if you built your website with Flash today, but back then it was the killer tool to create interactive and graphics websites. Designers were able to add animation, custom fonts and shapes, 3D buttons, splash pages, and all in one tool-Flash. The whole was encapsulated into one file to be read into the user's browser. It was like magic. Unfortunately, that magic was inconvenient. It was not Search Engine Optimization (SEO)-friendly and was very heavy in terms of resources for your computer.

Flash started to decline when Apple decided to stop supporting Flash in their iOS software back in 2010 (https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/). With the new features of HTML5/CSS3, where you are able to create animation and add multimedia content, designers and developers soon diverted from Flash, at least for web design.

Here are some examples of Flash websites. This screenshot shows a very basic flash website that uses sliders, animations, and interactions. You can check this website at http://www.richard-goodwin.com/flash/indexn.html.