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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

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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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

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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Authors (1)

Philippe Hong

Philippe Hong

Philippe Hong is a French award-winning designer, UI/UX, and front-end developer. He's a creative person who's passionate about making the best possible experience for people. The judge at CSSDA, he won several awards, such as two Website of the day awards, Bemyapp Games WorldCup, Dailymotion Best Mobile application, and many others. He has had the privilege to work with well-known brands and is an actively engaged designer who takes pleasure in writing and talking about design on different occasions.

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