Libby Alex, Talesra Asoj, Gupta Gaurav. Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

Packt Publishing, 2016. — 174 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78355-307-5.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.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 browsersDesign and deliver an optimal user experience for all devices
Introducing Responsive Web Design
Creating Fluid Layouts
Adding Responsive Media
Exploring Media Queries
Testing and Optimizing for Performance