Web Design and Development - The Right Way!

Web Design & Development - The Right Way! Book 2

A continuation of Book 1. This book explores Page Layouts, Cascading Style Sheets, and CSS Frameworks.

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. Each book covers specific lessons which continue on from the last.

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.

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 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.


Specific topics covered in Book 2 are:

Creating Page Layouts
Creating a Laravel Page Layout
Creating a view using our template
Creating a route for our page
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets
Creating a basic CSS Structure
CSS Frameworks
Twitter Bootstrap / Zurb Foundation
CDN
Grid System
Other Features
Navbar
Jumbotron
Buttons
Alerts
Tab
Cards
Breadcrumbs
Downloading Bootstrap
Installing Bootstrap with NPM

Once completed you'll then be ready to tackle the next lessons covered in Book 3 where we look at Variables, Functions, Methods, Classes and Models.