Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics

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The internet has been round for greater than 25 years now, experiencing euphoric early enlargement, an economic-driven bust, an innovation-driven rebirth, and fixed evolution alongside the way in which. One factor is definite: the online as a communication and industrial medium is right here to keep. Not solely that, it has discovered its manner onto gadgets corresponding to smartphones, tablets, TVs, and extra. There have by no means been extra alternatives to put internet design know-how to use.

Whatever the motivation, the primary query is at all times the identical: “Where do I start?” It could appear to be there’s a mountain of stuff to study, and it’s not simple to know the place to soar in. But you could have to begin someplace.

Learning Web Design is a whole introductory-level course in internet design and manufacturing. It is split into six components: primary background details about the online and internet design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, internet picture manufacturing, and appendices. Since hands-on expertise is one of the best ways to study, this e-book contains workout routines all through each lesson. Online supplies are offered although a companion web site to work together with the e-book.

You’ll start from sq. one, studying how the online and internet pages work, then steadily construct from there. Along the way in which, there are hands-on workout routines and quick quizzes to be sure you perceive key ideas. By the top of the e-book, you’ll have the talents to create a easy multi-column website that works on all display sizes.

Learning Web Design, Fifth Edition, is split into six components, every coping with an vital facet of internet improvement.

Coverage, and updates within the fifth Edition

Build HTML pages with textual content, hyperlinks, photographs, tables, and varieties

Use model sheets (CSS) for colours, backgrounds, formatting textual content, web page structure, and even easy animation results

Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so vital in internet design

Create and optimize internet photographs in order that they’ll obtain as rapidly as potential

Part I: Getting Started

Part I lays a basis for all the things that follows within the e-book. I begin off with some vital common details about the online design atmosphere, together with the varied roles you may play, the applied sciences you may study, and instruments which can be out there to you. You’ll get your toes moist immediately with HTML and CSS and learn the way the online and internet pages typically work. I’ll additionally introduce you to some Big Concepts that get you considering in the identical manner that fashionable internet designers take into consideration their craft.

Part II: HTML for Structure

The chapters in Part II cowl the nitty-gritty of each component and attribute out there to give content material semantic construction. We’ll cowl the markup for textual content, hyperlinks, photographs, tables, varieties, and embedded media.

Part III: CSS for Presentation

In the course of Part III, you’ll go from studying the fundamentals of Cascading Style Sheets for altering the presentation of textual content to creating multicolumn layouts and even including time-based animation and interactivity to the web page. It supplies an introduction to Responsive Web Design, in addition to the instruments and strategies which can be a part of the trendy developer’s workflow.

New subject protection within the fifth Edition

CSS Flexbox and Grid Layout for classy and versatile web page structure

Responsive Web Design to make internet pages work nice on all display sizes

An introduction to the command line, Git, and different fashionable internet developer instruments

A new chapter on SVG and how to use it in responsive layouts

Part IV: JavaScript for Behavior

Mat Marquis begins Part IV out with a rundown of JavaScript syntax so to inform a variable from a operate. You’ll get to know some ways in which JavaScript is used (together with DOM scripting) and present JavaScript instruments corresponding to polyfills and libraries that allow you to put JavaScript to use rapidly, even when you aren’t fairly prepared to write your personal code from scratch.

Part V: Web Images

Part V introduces the varied picture file codecs which can be applicable for the online, supplies methods for selecting them as a part of a responsive workflow, and describes how to optimize them to make their file measurement as small as potential. It additionally features a chapter on SVG graphics, which supply nice benefits for responsive and interplay design.

Part VI: Appendices

Part VI holds reference materials corresponding to check solutions, lists of HTML world attributes and CSS Selectors, and a have a look at HTML5 and its historical past.

Publisher‏:‎O’Reilly Media; fifth version (May 29, 2018)
Language‏:‎English
Paperback‏:‎808 pages
ISBN-10‏:‎1491960205
ISBN-13‏:‎978-1491960202
Item Weight‏:‎3.35 kilos
Dimensions‏:‎8 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches