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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

Creating our web page


Now that everything is set up, let's get started with putting together our images folder and installing our fonts.

Images folder

I have prepared a folder with all the images that you'll need to do this exercise. Those images can be found in Resources | Image Web project. You can simply copy all the images and assets to the img folder in our new project folder.

Installing our font

If you have a second look at the website, you can see that we're using custom fonts, which means that we're not using web safe fonts. Web-safe fonts are the fonts pre-installed on every device. They appear on all operating systems. This collection of fonts is used by Windows, Mac, Google, Linux, Unix, and so on.

There may be a few more, but this is a list of the common web-safe fonts:

  • Arial
  • Helvetica
  • Times New Roman
  • Courier New
  • Courier
  • Verdana
  • Georgia
  • Comic Sans MS
  • Trebuchet MS
  • Arial Black
  • Impact

Not super appealing; let's be honest.

But, with CSS3, we can now add our own custom fonts, by using @font-face. Let...

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