Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials - Softcover

Talesra, Asoj; Libby, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783553073 ISBN 13: 9781783553075

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Alex Libby 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.

Gaurav Gupta 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.

Asoj Talesra 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783553073
• ISBN 13: 9781783553075
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 174