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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

Understanding the importance of speed


The advent of using different devices that can access the Internet means speed is critical—the time it takes to download content from hosting servers and how quickly the user can interact with the site are key to the success of any site.

Why it is important to focus on the performance of our website on the mobile devices or those devices with lesser screen resolution? There are several reasons for this, they include the following:

  • Nearly 80 percent of Internet users own a smartphone

  • Around 90 percent of users go online through a mobile device, with 48% of users using search engines to research new products

  • Approximately 72 percent of users abandon a website if the loading time is more than 5–6 seconds

  • Mobile digital media time is now significantly higher compared to desktop use

If we do not consider statistics such as these, then we may go ahead and construct our site, but end up with a customer losing both income and market share, if we have not fully considered...