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WEB DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN FOR BEGINNERS: LEARN AND APPLY THE BASIC OF HTML5, CSS3, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, BOOTSTRAP, DOM, UNIX COMMAND, AND GITHUB - TOOLS FOR BUILDING RESPONSIVE WEBSITES JAMES WEBB
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CONTENTS Introduction 1. Knowing Your Way Around Virtual Space 2. Responsive Design Is the Way To Go 3. Structuring the Page with HTML 4. Dressing Up the Page with CSS 5. Stay Focused on Responsive Web Design and Maximize Resources Through Bootstrap 6. Adding Interactivity and Functionality with Javascript 7. Document Object Model 8. Streamline Website Building with JQuery 9. UNIX Commands 10. Collaborate and Expand Your Web Development Resources Through Git and GitHub Conclusion
“What separates design from art is that design is meant to be functional.” — BY CAMERON MOLL
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INTRODUCTION Some skills are increasingly in demand. Skills that will almost guarantee your job and your opportunities for years and decades. One such skill is web development. Are you wondering how to become a web developer? Contrary to popular belief, you don't need a sophisticated computer science degree to become a web developer and build a functioning website. In fact, if you carefully follow the instructions in this book, you can become a web developer much faster than you think
(but it's still a lot of work!). You've probably done some internet research on how basic web development works and found what you were searching for in under 5 minutes. If only it were that simple... Web Development and Design For Beginners: Learn and Apply the Basic of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, DOM, UNIX Command and GitHub - Tools For Building Responsive Websites will teach you in "Pure English" what you need to know about how the Internet world works. It's no secret... Learning web development can be very embarrassing if you don't have the proper foundation right from the start. This book will make it easier for you. This is the first step in deciding to become a web developer and change your life! Always remember ... every single professional
programmer today was once a noob. Becoming a web designer doesn't have to be complicated. However, if you want to know the basics, we've put together this guide which covers everything you need to know to get started. This book was written for beginners who want a solid coding foundation for building responsive websites and mastering the art of modern web design. Artistic and scientific web design takes advantage of the creative and analytical side of a person's mind. Web designers take what is conceptual and translate it into images. Images, typography, text, negative space, colors, and structure combine to provide not only a user experience but also a channel for communicating ideas. A decent web designer knows the importance of every element of a design. So they make choices on a granular level, modeling each element, never losing sight of how the
elements fit together and work to achieve the most ambitious design goals. No matter how spectacular the images are in a web design, it makes no sense without organization. Logic should guide the organization of ideas and images on each page and how users will navigate it. A skilled web designer creates designs that offer the fewest clicks. This book will help you achieve the knowledge to do this. Web design can be divided into several sub- disciplines. Some designers pursue careers by specializing in areas like UI, UX, SEO, and other areas of expertise. At the beginning of your journey as a designer, you should know a little more about all these different aspects of web design. You'll come across the terms backend and frontend as you learn. Unfortunately, most beginners confuse them, so it's essential to know how different they are. Everything that occurs behind the scenes of viewing a site is known as the backend.
Websites reside on servers. When a user makes a request, such as navigating to a specific section of a website, the server captures this input information and, in turn, shoots out all the HTML and more so that it displays correctly in the web browser. Thus, servers host the data that a website needs to function. Web developers specializing in backend development are usually programmers who work in languages like PHP, can use a Python framework like Django, manage SQL databases, write Java code, or use other frameworks or languages to make sure servers, applications, and databases all work together. To become a professional web designer, you don't need to know more about what's going on behind the scenes, but at least you need to understand the purpose. The front end is known as the client-side, while the back end is considered the server- side. The front end is where JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and other code function together to
render a website. This is the area of web design users involved in, and part of this book we'll cover. While moving forward with your career, you can venture into some areas of web development that are more specialized. For example, you may wind up working with frameworks like Bootstrap or React or go further with jQuery or JavaScript. These are more advanced areas that you shouldn't stress too much about at first. Like many roles in technology, being a web designer requires the creative and analytical side of your mind. And web design is a multipurpose career, with plenty of opportunities to nest or correct the course once you find exactly what you like. So, what skills do you need if you want to become a web designer? In this book, we will talk about the vital skills required to be hired as a web designer, as well as the personal skills that will help you stand out from the crowd.
This book focuses mainly on the front-end aspects of web design: HTML authoring, graphic production, and multimedia development. It is not a resource for scripting, programming, or server functions; however, whenever possible, I have tried to provide sufficient background on these topics to allow designers to familiarize themselves with the terminology and technologies. Thus, the content in this book is suitable for all skill levels, from professionals who need to research a specific detail to beginners who may need in-depth explanations of new concepts and individual tags. This book is for you if: You want a step-by-step overview of the fundamentals. You have no idea what creating websites entails. You have no knowledge of how to make a website live on the Internet.
THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK AND HOW YOU WILL LEARN Web Development and Design For Beginners: Learn The Basics Of HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, DOM, UNIX Command and GitHub - For Building Responsive Websites: Chapter One: Knowing Your Way Around Virtual Space helps you understand how websites work & how HTML, CSS & JavaScript contribute. Chapter Two: Responsive Design Is the Way to Go. Discovering the method of creating websites that can adapt seamlessly to various devices, screen sizes, and so on. Chapter Three: Structuring the Page with HTML. Here, you will learn the anatomy of HTML syntax to structure your websites; you will also understand the HTML boilerplate and HTML doctypes.
Chapter Four: Dressing Up the Page with CSS. Introduces you to the anatomy of cascading style sheets syntax and structure and how to use it to style your website. Chapter Five: Stay Focused on Responsive Web Design and Maximize Resources Through Bootstrap. Learn the fundamentals of implementing responsive web design, using Balsamiq to mockup and wireframe websites, the fundamentals of UI design for websites, etc. Chapter Six: Adding Interactivity and Functionality with JavaScript. Reviews the fundamentals of Coding starting with alerts and prompts. You will understand variables and data types in JavaScript. Chapter Seven: Document Object Model helps you learn the tree structure of HTML- based websites and teaches you how to manipulate and change the HTML elements using your understanding of the DOM. Chapter Eight: Streamline Website Building with JQuery. You get to learn about jQuery
functionality, manipulating text, styles, and attributes with jQuery, creating animations and customizations with jQuery, etc. Chapter Nine: UNIX Commands. The Unix Command Line walks you through how the basic bash commands in a Unix/Linux terminal can be used. Chapter Ten: Collaborate and Expand Your Web Development Resources Through Git and GitHub. GitHub helps us understand how to use git for version control and collaboration. Git forking, branching, and cloning.
Your Essential Toolkits Web design and development tools have come a long way in just a few years. With these advancements, we can harness the power of highly tested libraries to improve our workflow and unlock more possibilities in responsive design. Also, we can build things together with continuously improving version control systems. From browser add- ons and plugins to processors that optimize your code, there have never been so many possibilities for creating great web applications. But with the number of web development tools increasing almost every day, finding the best software to do the job can sometimes seem daunting. So to help you get started, we've created a list of essential frontend development tools to help you get started. 1. Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code has an extremely fast source code editor, perfect for everyday use. With support for several languages, VS Code
helps you instantly produce bracket- matching, syntax highlighting, auto- indentation, box selection, snippets, and more. In addition, intuitive keyboard shortcuts, easy customization, and community-provided keyboard shortcut mappings allow you to easily navigate the code. For serious coding, you will often benefit from tools with a greater understanding of the code than simple blocks of text. Visual Studio Code includes built-in support for IntelliSense code completion, advanced learning and navigation of semantic code, and code refactoring. 2. Chrome Developer Tools Wouldn't you be happy if you could edit your HTML and CSS on the fly or debug your JavaScript code while still showing complete analysis of your website's performance? Google Chrome's built-in developer tools allow you to do just that. Bundled and available in Chrome and Safari, they enable
developers to access the internal components of their web applications. Additionally, a range of networking tools can help you optimize load flows, while a timeline helps you better understand what the browser is doing at any given time. 3. jQuery JavaScript has long been regarded as a vital frontend language by developers. However, it had its own problems: loaded with browser inconsistencies, its somewhat complicated and inaccessible syntax meant the functionality suffered. That was until 2006, when jQuery, a fast, small, cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the frontend process, entered the scene. By neglecting much of the functionality generally left to developers, jQuery has allowed greater possibilities to create animations, add plugins, or even browse documents. And it's clearly a success: jQuery was by far the most popular JavaScript library in 2015,
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