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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By: Gilberto Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Owing to the different types of devices that offer Internet browsing today, responsive web designing has become a booming area. The heightened use of CSS3 and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery has led to shorter responsive web design times. You can now create a responsive website swiftly that works richly in any device a user might possess.</p> <p>"Responsive Web Design with jQuery" is a practical book focused on saving your development time using the useful jQuery plugins made by the frontend community. Follow the chapters, and learn to design and augment a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book presents a practical know how of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of frontend web development.</p> <p>This book helps you implement the concept of responsive web design in clear, gradual, and consistent steps, demonstrating each solution, and driving you to practice it and avoid common mistakes.</p> <p>You will learn how to build a responsive website; right from its structure, conception, and adapting it to screen device width. We will also take a look at different types of menu navigation and how to convert text, images, and tables so as as to display them graciously on different devices. Features such as the carousel slider and form elements will also be covered, including the testing phase and the measures to create correct fallbacks for old browsers.</p> <p>With "Responsive Web Design with jQuery", you will learn to create responsive websites quickly by using CSS3 and the incredible jQuery plugins. You will also learn to save your time by tailoring solutions created and tested by the community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the concept of responsive web design


I cannot start this theme without citing Ethan Marcotte, who released the book Responsive Web Design in 2011, which has become a reference for many other books and articles from across the frontend community.

In my understanding of Marcotte's book, the meaning of responsive web design is to provide different experiences for the user to see the same site depending on the available screen area. Technically speaking, it involves the use of the following three main techniques:

  • Flexible grid-based layout

  • Flexible images and video

  • Smart use of CSS splitting the website behavior (media queries)

More details about each technique will be shown later, but just to clarify this concept visually, have a look at the following example, which represents a website as displayed on a small device (smartphone) on the left, medium device (tablet) in center, and on a large screen (desktop) on the right:

Note

There are many more challenges than just creating fluidic dimensions and applying some media queries.

We will talk about many minor and major challenges throughout the book. Some of them are:

  • Replacing mouser-over events with touch events

  • Facilitating the filling of data in the form fields

  • Prioritizing the content

  • Site loading optimization