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    Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
    Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
    Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
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    Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

    By Asoj Talesra, Alex Libby and Gaurav Gupta

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    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 and CSS3 is assumed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 29, 2016
    ISBN9781783553082
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      Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials - Asoj Talesra

      Table of Contents

      Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewer

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      eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introducing Responsive Web Design

      Getting started with RWD

      Exploring how RWD works

      Understanding the elements of RWD

      Controlling the viewport

      Creating flexible grids

      Making media responsive

      Constructing suitable breakpoints

      Appreciating the importance of RWD

      Making our site accessible and intuitive

      Organizing our content

      Comparing RWD to adaptive design

      Preparing our development environment

      Considering a suitable strategy

      Exploring best practices

      Designing for touch

      Setting up a development workflow

      Discovering the requirements

      Planning our site

      Designing the text

      Sketching our design

      Prototyping and creating our design

      Testing our design

      Exploring mistakes

      Summary

      2. Creating Fluid Layouts

      Introducing flexible grid layouts

      Understanding the different layout types

      Setting the available viewport for use

      Balancing viewport against experience

      Considering viewport units

      Exploring the benefits of flexible grid layouts

      Understanding the mechanics of grid layouts

      Implementing a prebuilt grid layout

      Exploring the use of flexbox

      Taking a closer look

      Visiting the future

      Implementing a basic gallery grid

      Exploring what happened

      Taking it further

      Summary

      3. Adding Responsive Media

      Making media responsive

      Creating fluid images

      Implementing the element

      Using the srcset attribute

      Exploring the sizes attribute

      Manipulating the HTML5 element

      Putting it all together

      Exploring what happened

      Creating a real-world example

      Taking things further

      Making video responsive

      Embedding externally hosted videos

      Introducing the new HTML5 video element

      Embedding HTML5 video content

      Exploring what happened

      Building a practical example

      Exploring what happened

      Exploring the risks

      Making audio responsive

      Taking things further

      Making text fit on screen

      Sizing with em units

      Using rem units as a replacement

      Exploring use of viewport units

      Taking things further

      Summary

      4. Exploring Media Queries

      Exploring some examples

      Understanding media queries

      Exploring the available media types

      Listing the available media features

      Introducing operators in our queries

      Identifying common breakpoints

      Creating custom breakpoints

      Understanding the rationale

      Taking care over our design

      Removing the need for breakpoints

      Putting our theory into practice

      Creating some practical examples

      Making it real

      Exploring what happened

      Detecting high-resolution image support

      Exploring how it works

      Examining some common mistakes

      Exploring best practices

      Taking things further

      Summary

      5. Testing and Optimizing for Performance

      Understanding the importance of speed

      Understanding why pages load slowly

      Optimizing the performance

      Starting with Google

      Taking things further

      Testing the performance of our site

      Working through a desktop example

      Viewing on a mobile device

      Best practices

      Providing support for older browsers

      Considering which features to support

      Let the user choose what they want

      Do we need to include a whole library?

      Considering cross-browser compatibility

      Outlining the challenges

      Understanding the drawbacks of JavaScript

      Providing a CSS-based solution

      Testing site compatibility

      Working out a solution

      Exploring tools available for testing

      Viewing with Chrome

      Working in Firefox

      Exploring our options

      Following best practices

      Summary

      Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

      Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

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      Credits

      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.

      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 as a concept.

      Chapter 2, Creating Fluid Layouts, takes a look at creating flexible grid layouts as a key element of our design process; we explore the benefits of using them, and take a look at creating some examples using prebuilt styles.

      Chapter 3, Adding Responsive Media, walks us through how to make our media responsive. We cover some of the tips and tricks available for use and examine why, in some cases, it is preferable to host content externally (such as videos)—if only to save on bandwidth costs!

      Chapter 4, Exploring Media Queries, leads us to explore media queries and how we can use them to control what content is displayed at particular screen width settings. We cover the basics of creating breakpoints and examine why these should be based around where content breaks in our design and not simply for specific devices we want to support.

      Chapter 5, Testing and Optimizing for Performance, rounds off our journey through the essentials of responsive web design with a look at how we can test and optimize our code for efficiency. We explore some of the reasons why pages load slowly, how we can measure our performance, and understand why even though the same tricks can be applied to any site. It's even more critical that we incorporate them when designing responsively.

      What you need for this book

      All you need to work through most of the examples in this book is a simple text or code editor, an Internet browser, and Internet access. Many of the demos use Google Chrome, so it is ideal if you have this installed; other browsers can be used, although there may be instances where you have to change the steps accordingly.

      Who this book is for

      The book is for frontend developers who are familiar with HTML5 and CSS3, but want

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