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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By : Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By: Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Examining some common mistakes


When creating sites, and in particular, those that are responsive, it is easy to make mistakes; after all, it's like learning any new technology; we're not perfect from the outset!

To help with your first few steps into the world of responsive construction and creating media queries, let's spend a little time exploring some of the more common mistakes, understand why they cause issues, and go through a few pointers to help avoid these problems:

  • Not including the viewport tag: This is one of the most common errors to make. When working on mobile devices, we have to include this tag if we want them to be displayed without zooming:

            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1″> 
    

    If the tag is not included, then text will appear smaller, as mobile devices zoom pages by default.

  • Syntax errors: Yes, this old chestnut is another common cause of problems! Hard as it may seem, but mistyping a query can throw up errors, especially...