Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781783553075
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencia de la computación
• Subtopic: Programación en HTML

Design and deliver an optimal user experience for all devices

About This Book

• Get to grips with the core functionality of RWD through examples
• Discover how to make layouts, content and media flexible, and explore why a content-first approach is more effective
• Maximize the performance of your web pages so that they work across all browsers and devices irrespective of the screen size

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web designers who are familiar with HTML and CSS, and want to begin with responsive web design. Web development experience and knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Explore various layout options
• Understand what can be achieved in the browser, without the use of third-party tools
• Executing media queries to benefit responsive designs
• Understand the basics of responsive workflow and boilerplate frameworks
• Improve performance of responsive web design
• Maintain compatibility across various browsers

In Detail

Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—providing easy reading and navigation with minimum resizing, panning, and scrolling—and all of this across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. Responsive web design is becoming more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of the Internet's total traffic.

This book will give you in depth knowledge about the basics of responsive web design. You will embark on a journey of building effective responsive web pages that work across a range of devices, from mobile phones to smart TVs, with nothing more than standard markup and styling techniques.

You'll begin by getting an understanding of what RWD is and its significance to the modern web. Building on the basics, you'll learn about layouts and media queries. Following this, we'll dive into creating layouts using grid based templates. We'll also cover the important topic of performance management, and discover how to tackle cross-browser challenges.

Style and approach

This is a practical example-based book which will delve into various elements and benefits of a responsive web design. It will help you understand the essential skills needed to create responsive web sites and guide you through the basics of building responsive web pages for any device. The topics are a blend of theoretical and practical essentials which will assist you to explore more about responsive web design.

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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

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Credits

Authors Alex Libby Gaurav Gupta Asoj Talesra	Copy Editor Charlotte Carneiro
Reviewer Sasan Seydnejad	Project Coordinators Nikhil Nair Ritika Manoj
Commissioning Editor Kartikey Pandey	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Larissa Pinto	Indexer Hemangini Bari
Content Development Editor Sachin Karnani	Graphics Abhinash Sahu
Technical Editor Pranav Kukreti	Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta

About the Authors

Alex Libby has a background in IT support. He has been involved in supporting end users for almost 20 years in a variety of different environments; a recent change in role now sees Alex working as an MVT test developer for a global distributor based in the UK. Although Alex gets to play with different technologies in his day job, his first true love has always been with the open source movement, and in particular experimenting with CSS/CSS3, jQuery, and HTML5. To date, Alex has written 11 books on subjects such as jQuery, HTML5 Video, SASS, and CSS for Packt, and has reviewed several more. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials is Alex's twelfth book for Packt, and second completed as a collaboration project.

Writing books has always been rewarding. It's a great way to learn new technologies and give back something to others who have yet to experience them. My thanks must go to Packt and my coauthors for letting me review and assist with editing this book. My special thanks must also go to family and friends for their support too—it helps get through the late nights!

Gaurav Gupta is a young and budding IT professional and has a good amount of experience of working on web and cross-platform application development and testing. He is a versatile developer and a tester and is always keen to learn new technologies to be updated in this domain. Passion about his work makes him stand apart from other developers.

Even at a relatively early stage of his career, he is a published author of two books, named Mastering HTML5 Forms and Mastering Mobile Test Automation with Packt Publishing.

A graduate in computer science, he currently works for a reputed Fortune 500 company and has developed and tested several web and mobile applications for the internal use.

Gaurav is a native of Chandigarh, India, and currently lives in Pune, India.

First of all, I would like to thank the almighty and my family, who have always guided me to walk on the right path in life. My heartfelt gratitude and indebtedness goes to all those people in my life who gave me constructive criticism, as it contributed directly or indirectly in a significant way toward firing up my zeal to achieve my goals. A special thanks to my sister, Anjali, who is a constant support, always.

Asoj Talesra is an enthusiastic software developer with strong technical background. As a hybrid mobile app developer, he is responsible for crafting and developing intuitive, responsive web pages, and mobile apps using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Xamarin, and Appcelerator Titanium. He works with a Fortune 500 company, and is well experienced in the areas of banking, quality and compliance, and audit.

	At the very first, I'd like to thank Gaurav Gupta for advising me with such an amazing opportunity. The astounding encouragement and support from my family and friends is something I'm really indebted to, and I owe each one of you a part of this. I'd also like to thank Apurva and Poonam especially, for their contributions and feedback that helped me a lot shaping up this book. We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to the team from Packt Publishing and the technical reviewers for their valuable suggestions, which proved extremely helpful in making this a better book for the readers. Our special thanks to our mentors, colleagues, and friends for sharing their experiences, which have proved very valuable in making this book better oriented toward the real-world challenges faced.
	--Gaurav Gupta and Asoj Talesra

About the Reviewer

Sasan Seydnejad has more than a decade of experience in web UI and frontend application development using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML in .NET and ASP.NET environments. He specializes in modular SPA design and implementation, responsive mobile-friendly user interfaces, AJAX, client architecture, and UX design, using HTML5, CSS3, and their related technologies. He implements framework-less and framework-based applications using Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js, and AngularJS. He is the holder of the US patent for a user interface for a multidimensional data store—US Patent 6907428.

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Preface

A question—how many devices do you own that can access the Internet?

As a user, I'll bet the answer is likely to be quite a few; this includes smart TVs, cell phones, and the like. As developers, it is up to us to provide a user experience that works on multiple devices. Welcome to the world of responsive design!

Responsive design is not only all about creating a great user experience, but one that works well on multiple different devices, from a simple online ordering process for tickets, right through to an extensive e-commerce system. Many of the tips you see throughout the course of this book don't require extensive changes to your existing development methodology. In many cases, it's enough to make some simple changes to begin building responsive sites.

Creating responsive sites can open up a real world of opportunity for you; over the course of this book, I'll introduce you to the essential elements that you need to be aware of when designing responsively, and provide you with examples and plenty of tips to help get you started with creating responsive designs.

Are you ready to get started? Here's hoping the answer is yes. If so, let's make a start.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Responsive Web Design, kicks off our journey into the world of responsive design, with an introduction into the basics of the concept; we explore the importance of RWD in today's environment and examine how it works...