Responsive Web Design
From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users’ needs. Ethan Marcotte will explore CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, demonstrating how you can deliver a quality experience to your users no matter how large (or small) their display.
Contents
- Our Responsive Web
- The Flexible Grid
- Flexible Images (Read this chapter online)
- Media Queries
- Becoming Responsive
What People Are Saying
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Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Ethan’s straightforward approach to designing for this complexity represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build web sites for the decade to come.
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Every so often, something comes along in our industry that defines a moment in time: Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘Designing with Web Standards,’ or Doug Bowman’s Wired.com redesign. This book is one of those moments. Insightful, witty and practical, ‘Responsive Web Design’ points us in the direction of a new web.”
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Dickens, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Homer have nothing on Marcotte, who has created this new classic. Make sure you get a signed, first edition, then get a second copy (so you won’t mess up the first one by reading it).
About the Author
Additional Info
- ISBN: 978-0-9844425-7-7
- Paperback: 143 pages
- Also available in: French