Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 in 24 Hours
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education, Limited, 2014
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- Title
- Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 in 24 Hours
- Author
- Kyrnin, Jennifer
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Limited
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0672338386
- ISBN 13
- 9780672338380
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 1.431 pounds
- Dimensions
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- Series
- Book 114 of 158: Sams Teach Yourself
Learn responsive web design (RWD) with HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript in just 24 one-hour lessons
Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours helps you create websites that work equally well on everything from smartphones and tablets to multi-screen monitors.
This book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach shows how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build the responsive sites today’s users and clients want. In just a few hours, you’ll be building layouts, sites, forms, and web apps that automatically adapt to virtually any device. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success.
Learn how to…
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Create effective and reliable responsive designs with CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript
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Use progressive enhancement to consistently provide the right content while making the most of each device and browser
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Establish breakpoints and write CSS media queries to respond appropriately to each user agent
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Choose the right layout and wireframing approach for your site
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Use web fonts to control typography and choose sizes that look good on any device
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Master three ways to make tables responsive
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Build responsive forms using the latest HTML5 tags and attributes
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Implement responsive navigation patterns that users understand intuitively
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Test for responsiveness and performance
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Use Responsive Design + Server Side Components (RESS) to optimize performance
CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
HOUR 1: What Is Responsive Web Design?
• History of Responsive Web Design
• Why We Need Responsive Web Design
HOUR 2: Alternatives to Responsive Web Design
• CSS Layouts
• Detection Scripts
HOUR 3: The Growth of Mobile
• Basic Cell Phones
• Smartphones
• Tablets
• Retina Devices
• Why Responsive Design Is Important
HOUR 4: Progressive Enhancement
• What Is Progressive Enhancement?
• How to Use Progressive Enhancement on a
• Website
• Benefits of Progressive Enhancement
HOUR 5: HTML for Responsive Web Design
• Clean Code
• Don’t Forget Semantic Elements
• Validating Your HTML
HOUR 6: Basic CSS
• How to Write CSS Rules
• Embedded and External Style Sheets
• Styling Fonts and Colors
• Creating a Layout with CSS
• Understanding Cascading and Specificity
HOUR 7:Unobtrusive JavaScript
• What Is Unobtrusive JavaScript?
• How to Implement Unobtrusive JavaScript
PART II: BUILDING A RESPONSIVE WEBSITE
HOUR 8: Planning a Responsive Website
• Should You Make Your Website Responsive?
• How to Plan for a Responsive Website
HOUR 9:Mobile First
• Why Design for Mobile First?
• What Makes a Site Mobile Friendly?
• What About Mobile Only?
HOUR 10: CSS Media Queries
• What Is a Media Query?
• Media Query Expressions
HOUR 11: Breakpoints
• What Is a Breakpoint?
• How to Define Breakpoints in CSS
• Optimal Breakpoints
HOUR 12: Layout
• What Is Web Layout?
• Types of Layouts
• Columns in Layout
HOUR 13: Navigation
• Why Responsive Navigation Is Important
• What Makes Navigation Mobile Friendly?
• Basic RWD Navigation Patterns
HOUR 14: Responsive Fonts and Typography
• Using Web Fonts
• Sizing Typography
• Relative Versus Absolute Font Sizes
• New CSS3 Measurement Units
HOUR 15: Creating and Using Images in RWD
• Making Images Responsive
• Improving Download Speeds
• Building and Using Retina-Ready Images
HOUR 16: Videos and Other Media in RWD
• Making YouTube Videos Responsive
HOUR 17: Tables in Responsive Web Design
• Tables on Small Devices
• Can Tables Be Responsive?
• Where Do Layout Tables Fit in RWD?
HOUR 18: Responsive Web Forms
• HTML5 Forms
• Making Web Forms Usable
• Creating Responsive Forms
HOUR 19: Testing Responsive Websites
• Testing in Your Browser
• Testing in a Device for All Your Breakpoints
• How to Test When You Don’t Have the Devices
HOUR 20: Problems with Responsive Web Design
• RWD Can Make More Work for Designers
• Not All Customers Like Responsive Sites
• RWD May Break Advertising
PART III: IMPROVING RESPONSIVE DESIGN
HOUR 21: Tools for Creating Responsive Web Designs
• Planning and Designing Your RWD Site• HTML Element and CSS Tools
• Web Editors for Building Responsive Web Pages
HOUR 22: Device and Feature Detection
• Why Use Detection Scripts
• Modernizr
• WURFL
HOUR 23: Using RESS with RWD
• What Is RESS?
• Benefits of Using RESS
• Getting Started with RESS
• When to Use RESS
HOUR 24: RWD Best Practices
• Give Everyone the Best Experience
• Use the Best Breakpoints You Can
• Be Flexible and Think Small
• Don’t Forget the Content
• Manage Costs
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About the Author
Jennifer Kyrnin has been teaching HTML, XML, and web design online since 1997. She has built and maintained websites of all sizes, from small, single-page brochure sites to large, million-page database-driven sites for international audiences. She lives with her husband and son and numerous animals on a small farm in Washington state.
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