"If you're a climate-conscious but busy web developer wanting to green your practice, Sustainable Web Design in 20 Lessons by Michael Andersen is your ideal starting point. Your day-to-day web development practice can be an impactful climate action: this book will help you make it so" - Ismael Velasco The internet is one of the biggest carbon dioxide polluters in this world. You might not be aware of it, but whenever you open an email, send a chat message, refresh your newsfeed, watch a movie or load a website, you cause pollution. Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons is for the web designer and the intermediate website owner. It will teach you what sustainable web design is and give you valuable tools you can use to make your website more sustainable. You will also get introduced to ethical design, which is the art of putting people before business. Together we can make the internet a better place for everyone. Book content: Lesson 1: Sustainable Web Design fundamentals. Lesson 2: Understand carbon footprints. Lesson 3: Green web hosting. Lesson 4: Content delivery networks. Lesson 5: Page-weight budgets. Lesson 6: Death of content. Lesson 7: Accessibility. Lesson 8: Minimalistic & lightweight design. Lesson 9: Dark/light mode & colors. Lesson 10: Image optimization. Lesson 11: Video optimization. Lesson 12: Font optimization. Lesson 13: HTML optimization. Lesson 14: CSS optimization. Lesson 15: JavaScript optimization. Lesson 16: React & Svelte optimization. Lesson 17: Trackers & HTTP requests. Lesson 18: Service workers & Caching. Lesson 19: APIs. Lesson 20: Emails and newsletters.

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Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical guide, your web design team will learn how to apply sustainability principles for creating speedy, user-friendly, and energy-efficient digital products and services. Author Tim Frick introduces a web design framework that focuses on four key areas where these principles can make a difference: content strategy, performance optimization, design and user experience, and green hosting. You’ll discover how to provide users with a streamlined experience, while reducing the environmental impact of your products and services. Learn why 90% of the data that ever existed was created in the last year Use sustainability principles to innovate, reduce waste, and function more efficiently Explore green hosting, sustainable business practices, and lean/agile workflows Put the right things in front of users at precisely the moment they need them—and nothing more Increase site search engine visibility, streamline user experience, and make streaming video more efficient Use Action Items to explore concepts outlined in each chapter

This book is about the process of creating web-based systems (i.e., websites, content, etc.) that consider each of the parts, the modules, the organisms – binary or otherwise – that make up a balanced, sustainable web ecosystem. In the current media-rich environment, a website is more than a collection of relative html documents of text and images on a static desktop computer monitor. There is now an unlimited combination of screens, devices, platforms, browsers, locations, versions, users, and exabytes of data with which to interact. Written in a highly approachable, practical style, this book is useful for stakeholders, system administrators, developers, designers, content managers, and the anonymous web user in industry, as well as faculty, staff, and students of all levels involved in teaching and learning in information technology.

"Pixels use electricity. If the internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. The average web page (according to the HTTP Archive) is now over 2 megabytes in size. Bloated websites lead to slow load times, frustrated users, and wasted energy. This book identifies four key areas where sustainability principles can be applied to the process of creating websites that are speedy, user-friendly and energy-efficient: findability, performance optimization, design and user experience, and green hosting. Design and user experience (UX) are where the seeds of web sustainability are sown. Websites that provide a streamlined experience--putting the right things in front of users at precisely the moment needed and nothing more--are more sustainable websites. In the case of the web, people-friendly is also more planet-friendly. This book will help you get there."--Provided by publisher.