An Introduction To Web Development

This brief book is an easy-to-digest introduction to the key concepts of web development. Understand the concepts of the web and how they apply to static and dynamic websites. See how HTML and CSS are used to create the bones of the web. Concisely presented through four key concept chapters, Introducing Web Development will enable you to get a clear understanding of how web development works. What You Will Learn How the web works and interacts with websites What static and dynamic websites are and how they work How the static parts of a website are coded using HTML and CSS Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to understand the basics of web development.

Filled with thousands of real-world examples, this text: introduces Web development to first-time developers; covers all aspects of webpage design; provides detailed coverage of webpage formatting using CSS; presents the use of JavaScript and JQuery to automate webpages; presents the HTML 5 canvas that developers can use to display charts, graphs, and more within a page; covers drag-and-drop processing; introduces location-aware applications; and teaches users how to use asynchronous programming to achieve multitasking within a webpage. HTML 5 allows Web developers not only to build pages for the World Wide Web, but also to build pages for mobile devices and tablet PCs. The book starts with an introduction to standard HTML and its use in creating traditional websites. Within this context, it then teaches developers how to format and style their pages using cascading style sheets (CSS) and how to automate pages using JavaScript and JQuery

Web development has grown to become vital in shaping how humans interact, work, learn, and consume. Practical Web Development provides you with a roadmap of web development today, giving you the tools you need and the guidance to keep you creative and productive in a world of disruption and innovation. Beginning with the structure of the Web and the principles of building basic websites with HTML, you will learn about CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, before taking a closer look at some of the leading technologies used to build the modern Web. You will integrate jQuery, Ajax, and JSON into your projects before moving on to the latest tools and techniques in responsive web design, including Zurb Foundation or Bootstrap, to help you meet the challenges of developing for multiple devices, and explore how Node.js offers a powerful solution to server-side application development. This book is for anyone that wants to get to grips with the broader picture of web development today.

If you are a beginner who needs a solid grounding in the best practices for creating websites, this book is for you. Written by innovative curriculum developer and university web instructor Thomas Michaud, this book provides an accessible yet comprehensive look at web design and front-end coding, covering HTML, CSS, design principles and more. You’ll learn HTML semantics, structure, and validation, and how to separate content from design using CSS (levels 1, 2, and 3). Online videos and code examples let you follow along and practice with the code. Some of the other things you’ll learn about include: • text elements, links, objects, and tables • using the box model for background images, padding, borders, and margins • fixed vs. liquid page layout • choosing between different navigation models • creating and styling forms • interactive design with JavaScript and jQuery Foundations of Web Design is an indispensable resource to quickly take you from sketching to coding.

This book introduces standard and new HTML5 elements and attributes and CSS3 properties commonly used in Web design as well as design guidelines for their effective use. Its approach of explaining every line of code in the examples it uses to show the usage of the HTML elements and CSS properties introduced makes it an invaluable Web design resource for beginners as well as intermediates looking to fill in gaps in their knowledge. In addition, the inclusion of user-centered design process stages and how they are best managed in website development makes the book unique in its area. Also, the book's approach of including challenges after each topic to help refresh readers' knowledge, as well as make them think, ensures that there are ample activities to keep learners motivated and engaged. Key Features Comprehensively covers standard and new HTML5 elements and attributes and CSS3 properties. Includes a lot of challenges/exercises; one after each HTML element or CSS property introduced and demonstrated with examples. Example codes can be copied and pasted as-is to implement and experiment with. For every HTML element or CSS property introduced, guidelines are provided, where relevant, on how to best use them in a design to enhance usability and accessibility. Includes comprehensive explanation of flexible box and grid layout models and how to use them to create responsive and adaptive Web design. Covers the importance of visual aesthetics in design, including design elements and principles and examples of how they can be applied in Web design to produce good user experience. Includes comprehensive guidelines on how to design for standard and mobile screens, including discussion of touch gesture interaction design and standard gestures and the functions for which they are most commonly used. Introduces the stages of user-centered design process, including Web accessibility and user-experience testing, and managerial aspects of Web development, including intellectual property. Provides a brief introduction on how to make HTML and CSS codes more compact and more efficient and how to combine them with other languages commonly used in Web design and development, such as JavaScript, AJAX, and PHP.

This E-book covers information and contents related to web development. In this, reader might get to learn about the different basic markup languages like HTML and SVG also few languages cascading style sheets and JavaScript used in developing a website. This E-book also covers some information regarding: SEO which helps in optimizing your website to make it more visible when people use Google, Bing, or other search engines to look for goods or services relevant to your organization. Machine learning where you would learn how the machine works and where is the artificial intelligence used. At last on conclusion part, we have added few important questions where the reader can examine themselves how much they learned from this E-book.

An Introduction to Web Development: A Conceptual Approach introduces students to essential concepts of web development like design, copyright, netiquette, accessibility, and privacy and to essential content types like text, image, animation, sound, and video. Students explore topics such as: Internet cookies and how these may help or harm; avoiding Internet-based threats, like viruses, ransomware, and phishing attacks; ethics of image editing and selection; ho