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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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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

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...
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