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Practical Web Design

Practical Web Design

By : Philippe Hong
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Practical Web Design

Practical Web Design

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By: Philippe Hong

Overview of this book

Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributers
Preface
Index

The first ever website


The first ever website was created by a scientist named Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He was a British computer scientist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It was basically a text-based website with a few links. A copy of the original page from 1992 still exists online. It simply existed to serve and tell people what the World Wide Web (WWW) was:

Most websites to follow were pretty much the same. There were entirely text-based with simple HTML markup:

  • <h1> for titles
  • <p> for paragraphs
  • <a> for links (we will go through all this markup in our HTML course)

The following version of HTML further allowed people to insert images, <img>, and tables, <table>, thus creating more possibilities.

In 1994, the WWW Consortium (W3C) was formed to set and establish the standard of the web (https://www.w3.org/). It was mainly to discourage and prevent private companies from building their own web language, as it would create chaos on the web. The W3C to this day continues to deliver standards for the open web, such as the new HTML5 or CSS3.

Here are some examples of websites in the 90s. The following screenshot shows how the Yahoo web page used to look back in 1994:

The following screenshot shows how the Google web page used to look back in 1996:

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