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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

Chapter 7. Building Your Own Website

Thefunpart has finally come. We're going to start implementing our website from A to Z. I will explain thoroughly through each step. Here's the list of what is going to be covered in this chapter:

Installation of HTML Boilerplate
Setting up our project with images, fonts, and normalize.css
Creating our header and stylising it
Creating our hero section and learn about the positioning in CSS
Creating our Blog section
Adding an about section
Creating a Partner section
Creating a footer section

First, let's see the design we're going to implement. If you can remember, we saw a little preview back in Chapter 4, Responsive Versus Adaptive Design.

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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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