Responsive Web Design by Example : Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Thoriq Firdaus

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781783553259
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Responsive web design is an explosive area of growth in modern web development due to the huge volume of different device sizes and resolutions that are now commercially available.

By following our detailed step-by-step instructions in this reference guide, you will learn to build engaging responsive websites. With coverage of Responsive Grid System, Bootstrap, and Foundation, you will learn about three of the most powerful frameworks in responsive web design. You will learn to create a cool blog page, a beautiful portfolio site, and a crisp professional business site and make them all totally responsive. You'll also find out which framework works best for your project specifications.

Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz – heading

Have a go hero – heading

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design in a nutshell

Viewport meta tag

A word on screen size and viewport

Media queries

A look into responsive frameworks

The Responsive.gs framework

A word on CSS box model

CSS3 box sizing

The Bootstrap framework

The Foundation framework

A brief introduction to CSS preprocessors

Have a Go Hero — delve into responsive web design

Pop Quiz — responsive web design main components

Responsive web design inspiration sources

Summary

2. Web Development Tools

Choosing a code editor

Sublime Text Package Control

Time for action – installing Sublime Text Package Control

What just happened?

Have a go hero – install the LESS and Sass syntax-highlighting package

Setting up a local server

Time for action – installing XAMPP

What just happened?

Choosing a CSS preprocessor compiler

Browser for development

Source maps

Mobile emulator

Managing project dependency with Bower

Time for action – installing Node.js

What just happened?

Have a go hero – get yourself familiar with command lines

Time for action – installing Bower

What just happened?

Bower commands

Pop quiz – web development tools and command lines

Summary

3. Constructing a Simple Responsive Blog with Responsive.gs

Responsive.gs components

The classes

Using HTML5 elements for semantic markups

HTML5 search input types

HTML5 placeholder attribute

HTML5 in Internet Explorer

A look into polyfills in the Responsive.gs package

Box sizing polyfills

CSS3 media queries polyfill

Examining the blog's wireframe

Organizing project directories and files

Time for action – creating and organizing project directories and assets

What just happened?

Have a go hero – making the directory structure more organized

Pop quiz – using polyfill

The blog HTML structures

Time for action – constructing the blog

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating more blog pages

Pop quiz – HTML5 elements

Summary

4. Enhancing the Blog Appearance

Using CSS3

Creating rounded corners with CSS3

Creating drop shadow

CSS3 browser supports and the use of vendor prefix

Customizing to placeholder text styles

Using CSS libraries

Working with Koala

Time for action – integrating project directory into Koala and combining the style sheets

What just happened?

Have a go hero – renaming the output

Pop quiz – website performance rules

Thinking mobile first

Composing the blog styles

Time for action – composing the base style rules

What just happened?

Have a go hero – customizing the link color

Time for action – enhancing the header and the navigation appearance with CSS

What just happened?

Have a go hero – customizing the header

Time for action – enhancing the content section appearance with CSS

What just happened?

Have a go hero – improving the content section

Time for action – enhancing the footer section appearance with CSS

What just happened?

Optimize the blog for desktop

Time for action – composing style rules for desktop

What just happened?

Making Internet Explorer more capable with polyfills

Time for action – patch Internet Explorer with polyfills

What just happened?

Have a go hero – polish the blog for Internet Explorer

Summary

5. Developing a Portfolio Website with Bootstrap

The Bootstrap components

The Bootstrap responsive grid

Bootstrap buttons and forms

Bootstrap Jumbotron

Bootstrap third-party extensions

Jasny Bootstrap off-canvas

Digging into Bootstrap

Using font icons

Examining the portfolio website layout

Project directories, assets, and dependencies

Time for action – organizing project directories, assets, and installing project dependencies with Bower

What just happened?

Have a go hero – specifying Bower custom directory

Pop quiz – test your understanding on Bower commands

Updating Bower components

The portfolio website HTML structure

Time for action – building the website HTML structure

What just happened?

Have a go hero – extending the portfolio website

Pop quiz – Bootstrap button classes

Summary

6. Polishing the Responsive Portfolio Website with LESS

Basic LESS syntax

Variables

Nesting style rules

Mixins

Parametric mixins

Specify a default value in a parametric mixin

Merging mixins with extend syntax

Generating value with mathematical operations

Generating color wit...