Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
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- English
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
Informazioni sul libro
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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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
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!
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.
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 |
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