Web Design and Development

Web Design & Development - The Right Way!

Hello World

All books in this series are written in plain English, are fully illustrated in colour, and are in easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons. Hello, World is an introduction to the series which comprises a number of books, each incorporating specific quick start stand-alone lessons.

Since the first “Hello, World!” program was written in 1972, it's become a tradition amongst computer science teachers and professors to introduce the topic of programming with this example. As a result, “Hello, World!” is often the first program most people write.

However, this book isn't introducing you to any old ‘Hello World’ program. Together, we’re going to do it ‘The Right Way!’ and in style.

Is this book series for you?

The 'Web Design and Development - The Right Way!' book series takes you through a number of stand-alone lessons. Each lesson forms a building block that can be used as part of your larger projects.

Modern programming in industry requires the usage of frameworks. These frameworks make coding easier, faster, and more secure, better structured, allow easier collaboration, and bring reliable and reusable results. That’s why this book series, from the outset, gets you up and running using the Laravel Framework, which is arguably the most well-known and used framework for PHP development worldwide.

Unlike many programming guides, this book series has a direct approach and dives straight in, to get you writing reusable code from the start.

Additionally, there is a lesson-specific knowledge base on the accompanying website, for those who need more in-depth information to bring you quickly on track.

Therefore, this book series is suitable for anyone from the absolute beginner to the more experienced programmer who wishes to brush up or extend their existing knowledge.

This book series uses many technologies including HTML, CSS, CSS3, Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL / MariaDB, Twitter Bootstrap, Zurb Foundation, Photoshop, XAMPP, Composer, JSON, XML and AJAX amongst others.


Specifically this book covers:

Hello World
Creating your first-ever program for the web using the Laravel framework
(Instructions are provided to complete the exercises with Notepad or similar if desired)
Why do you need to set up a local programming environment?
Create a new Laravel project
Adding files and folders to the Laravel file structure
Create a basic HTML file structure
Create a page view using the template
Create a route for the page
Basic CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Creating a basic CSS style sheet
Basic JavaScript
JavaScript functions and optimisation
Create a basic JavaScript function
Glossary
Resources
Further Reading
Test your Knowledge