Book Details

Web Design & Development - The Right Way! Book 2 A continuation of Book 1. This book explores Page Layouts, Cascading Style Sheets and CSS Frameworks. 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 continues on from the last. 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.