Search query: web design

Product: The Complete Website Planning Guide: A step-by-step guide on how to create a practical and successful plan for your next web design project
Description: Praise for The Complete Website Planning Guide: A great, accessible and practical guide that you can quickly use to get better results from your next website build. Get to it!

Would you build a house without blueprints and expect it to be perfect?

That's how many people go about their web projects, with napkin drawings, spoken discussions, partly finished summaries and guides. They then wonder they don't complete it on time, it costs more than it should, and people aren't happy with it.

You can be the architect of your next website project and avoid delays, scope creep, missing functionality and extra costs.

In The Complete Website Planning Guide, you will learn how to easily create blueprints (a scope) for you or your client's website. It will solve many of the critical problems that occur in website development projects.

After more than 20 years running a design and development agency, Darryl couldn't find a standard method that everyone could use to outline the project. Most briefs or planning methods either focus on general things like platform, hosting and general design guidelines. Many agencies or freelancers still fly by the seat of their pants using their experience to guide the project.

So he wrote this guidebook as an instruction manual to create useful site plans without missing out essential requirements or needing to be overly technical.

In this simple step-by-step guide he walks you through the process of establishing what the website really needs to do and shows you how to do it.

Read this book before you pick a theme and try to wedge your needs into it, or you tell your designer to copy someone else's site.

If you are a freelancer or agency developer, don't take on a client or quote a new project without helping them plan the site properly.

Learn how to create a plan so you can avoid overruns, scope creep and lost money.

This book is the very first step you need for your next web project. Download the free templates and resources and join the facebook group where you can get advice on working through your plan.

You can also now buy the companion Workbook to use side by side with this book.

What readers said:

"If you are a business owner, read it, print out the templates and have these discussions with your designers. Trust me, even if you do only a few things in this guide, your outcome will be 100% better than if you just choose your site based on the pretty colours." Ed Pelgen

"I am a freelancer and this is what i was looking for. Darryl has used his experience in laying out the problems faced by clients and freelancers and also given some templates and methods to follow before starting a new project" Amrinder Signh
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Product: Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 - Second Edition: Build responsive and future-proof websites to meet the demands of modern web users
Description: Learn the HTML5 and CSS3 you need to help you design responsive and future-proof websites that meet the demands of modern web users

About This Book

Learn and explore how to harness the latest features of HTML5 in the context of responsive web design
Learn to wield the new Flexbox layout mechanism, code responsive images, and understand how to implement SVGs in a responsive project
Make your pages interactive by using CSS animations, transformations, and transitions

What You Will Learn

Understand what responsive design is, and why it's vital for modern web development
HTML5 markup is cleaner, faster, and more semantically rich than anything that has come before - learn how to use it and its latest features
Integrate CSS3 media queries into your designs to use different styles for different media. You'll also learn about future media queries which are evolving in CSS4.
Responsive images allow different images to be presented in different scenarios. We'll cover how to load different sets of images depending upon screen size or resolution and how to display different images in different contexts.
Conquer forms! Add validation and useful interface elements like date pickers and range sliders with HTML5 markup alone.
Implement SVGs into your responsive designs to provide resolution independent images, and learn how to adapt and animate them
Learn how to use the latest features of CSS including custom fonts, nth-child selectors (and some CSS4 selectors), CSS custom properties (variables), and CSS calc

In Detail

Desktop-only websites just aren't good enough anymore. With mobile internet usage still rising, and tablets changing internet consumption habits, you need to know how to build websites that will just 'work', regardless of the devices used to access them. This second edition of Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 explains all the key approaches necessary to create and maintain a modern responsive design.

The changing way in which we access the web means that there has never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. With these recent trends driving changes in design, typical desktop-only websites fail to meet even minimum expectations when it comes to style and usability, which can be vital when your website is central to yours or your client's brand. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition is an updated and improved guide that responds to the latest challenges and trends in web design, giving you access to the most effective approaches to modern responsive design.

Learn how to build websites with a responsive and mobile first methodology, allowing a website to display effortlessly on every device that accesses it. Packed with examples, and a thorough explanation of modern techniques and syntax, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition provides a comprehensive resource for all things 'responsive'.

This updated new edition covers all the most up-to-date techniques and tools needed to build great responsive designs, ensuring that your projects won't just be built 'right' for today, but in the future too.

Chapter example code is all hosted on rwd.education, a dedicated site.

Table of Contents

The Essentials of Responsive Web Design
Media Queries - Supporting Differing Viewports
Fluid Layouts and Responsive Images
HTML5 for Responsive Web Designs
CSS3 - Selectors, Typography, Color Modes, and New Features
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Product: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design: Designing Great Web Sites is Not Rocket Science!
Description: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is the ideal book for people who can build websites, but are seeking the skills and knowledge to visually enhance their sites.

This book will teach you how to:

Understand what makes "good design," from discovery through to implementation
Use color effectively, develop color schemes, and create a palette
Create pleasing layouts using grids, the rule of thirds, and symmetry
Employ textures: lines, points, shapes, volumes, and depth
Apply typography to make ordinary designs look great
Choose, edit, and position effective imagery

And lots more...

This easy-to-follow guide is illustrated with beautiful, full-color examples, and will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish.
The third edition of this book has been greatly revised and now features:

Updated and expanded coverage of mobile and responsive web design (RWD)
A new sample project
New sections on user interface and icon design
Common user-interface patterns and resources
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Product: Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today (Multilingual Edition)
Brand: Taschen
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Product: Graphic Design Play Book: An Exploration of Visual Thinking (Logo, Typography, Website, Poster, Web, and Creative Design)
Brand: Laurence King Publishing
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Product: Web Design Playground: HTML & CSS the Interactive Way
Brand: Manning Publications
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Product: Web Design - Start Here: A No-Nonsense, Jargon Free Guide to the Fundamentals of Web Design
Brand: HOW Books
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Product: Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics
Description: Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You’ll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts.

This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

Build HTML pages with text, links, images, tables, and forms
Use style sheets (CSS) for colors, backgrounds, formatting text, page layout, and even simple animation effects
Learn how JavaScript works and why the language is so important in web design
Create and optimize web images so they’ll download as quickly as possible
NEW! Use CSS Flexbox and Grid for sophisticated and flexible page layout
NEW! Learn the ins and outs of Responsive Web Design to make web pages look great on all devices
NEW! Become familiar with the command line, Git, and other tools in the modern web developer’s toolkit
NEW! Get to know the super-powers of SVG graphics
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Product: Web Design All-in-One For Dummies
Brand: Wiley
For Dummies
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Product: Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies
Brand: For Dummies
everything needed to create website even if begginer
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Product: HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
Brand: Wiley
HTML CSS Design and Build Web Sites
Comes with secure packaging
It can be a gift option
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Product: Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Brand: New Riders Publishing
New Riders Publishing
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Product: The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Brand: Garrett, Jesse James
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Product: Basics of Web Design: HTML5 & CSS
Brand: Pearson
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Product: Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 (What's New in Computer Science)
Brand: Pearson
Includes access code
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Product: Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery Set
Brand: Wiley
Brand: Wiley
Set of 2 Volumes
A handy two-book set that uniquely combines related technologies Highly visual format and accessible language makes these books highly effective learning tools Perfect for beginning web designers and front-end developers
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