Web Design & Development - The Right Way!

Web Design and Development - The Right Way!

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.

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, 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.

All books in the series are easy to follow step-by-step guides that are written in plain English, are fully illustrated, and are presented in full colour.

Specifically, you will learn how to:

Download and Install XAMPP

Download and Install Composer

Download and Install Git Bash

Download and Install Visual Studio Code

Laravel Installation

Creating a New Laravel Project

Changing Server Port Numbers

Setting up Virtual Hosts

Take a first look at the Laravel File Structure

Plus, you'll get a glossary of terms used in the book, a whole bunch of resources, and further reading suggestions to get you on the right track.

Once you've completed this book you'll then be ready for Book 2 which explores page layouts, views, cascading style sheets, CSS Frameworks, and routes in Laravel.