Web Design Blueprints

Build websites and applications using the latest techniques in modern web development

About This Book

• Create amazing modern day applications that run seamlessly across multiple platforms
• Implement multiple methodologies by creating different apps with dynamic features
• This unique project-based guide will help you build your own websites efficiently

Who This Book Is For

This book is a must-have for web developers who want to stay on top of the latest trends in web app and site development. If you are a web developer who is already familiar with HTML, CSS, and functional JavaScript, and you want to learn the latest trends in web development, this is the book for you.

What You Will Learn

• Find out how to create responsive websites
• Create websites using the principals of Flat design
• Create deep-dive sites using parallax scrolling
• Discover how to use Ajax in single-page applications
• Create responsive navigation with CSS and JavaScript
• Create responsive padding with the box model property

In Detail

Web design is becoming a fragmented and dispersed topic. There are many trends within the industry that allow professional developers to build website for clients with a growing set of demands. There is currently no documentation that draws all of this information into one place, provides web designers with a panoramic view of their industry, and gives them the necessary skills to go out and make a given website.

Web Design Blueprints is the developer's resource to generate modern websites utilizing bleeding edge web development practices. Using its clear instructions, you can create web applications that put you at the forefront of the latest trends in development.

The book delivers simple instructions on how to design and build for the modern web using the latest trends in web development. You will learn how to design responsive websites, created with modern Flat User Interface design patterns, create deep scrolling websites with parallax 3D effects, and create single-page applications. Finally, you'll work through an awesome chapter that combines them all.

Each chapter features actual lines of code that you can apply right away.

Benjamin LaGrone

Benjamin LaGrone is a web developer who lives and works in Texas. He got his start in programming at the age of 6 when he took his first computer class at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. His first program was "choose your own adventure book", written in BASIC; he has fond memories of the days when software needed you to write line numbers. Fast forward to about thirty years later: after deciding that computers are here to stay, Ben has made a career combining two of his favorite things, art and coding―creating art from code. One of his favorite projects was using the GMaps API to map pathologies to chromosomes for cancer research. Fascinated with mobile devices for a long time, Ben thinks that the responsive Web is one of the most exciting, yet long time coming, new aspects of web development. He now works in a SaaS development shop and is the mobile and responsive Web evangelist of the team. When he's not working on some Internet project, Ben spends his time building robots, tinkering with machines, drinking coffee, surfing, and teaching Kuk Sool martial arts.