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AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By : O'Donoghue
Book Image

AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages

By: O'Donoghue

Overview of this book

Google introduced the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project to give mobile users lightning-fast response times when accessing web pages on mobile devices. AMP delivers great user experiences by providing a framework for optimizing web pages that otherwise would take much longer to load on a mobile platform. This book shows how to solve page performance issues using the mobile web technologies available today. You will learn how to build instant-loading web pages, and have them featured more prominently on Google searches. If you want your website to succeed on mobile, if you care about SEO, and if you want to stay competitive, then this book is for you! You will go on a mobile web development journey that demonstrates with concrete examples how to build lightning-fast pages that will keep your visitors on-site and happy. This journey begins by showing how to build a simple blog article-style web page using AMP. As new concepts are introduced this page is gradually refined until you will have the skills and confidence to build a variety of rich and interactive mobile web pages. These will include e-commerce product pages, interactive forms and menus, maps and commenting systems, and even Progressive Web Apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Actions and Events
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amp-bind Permitted Attribute Bindings

Adding a related articles section with thumbnail images


Our article page is still a fairly bare-bones experience at the moment. Let's try to improve it. A common design pattern is to include a related or recommended content section at the end of an article. Let's add this to the bottom of our page. It will consist of a list of three or four articles, with thumbnails and text. Building this will help to improve our understanding of AMP's layout system.

For the list of items, we'll use an unordered list ul. Each item in the list will have an HTML5 figure element, which in turn will have a thumbnail image, amp-img, and associated text figcaption.

We'll use layout="fixed" for the thumbnail images so that they will all be a fixed size; we'll explore other options shortly (full code at /ch3/related-float.html):

<figure class="related-thumb">
  <amp-img src="img/penguin.jpg" width="125" height="75" layout="fixed">
  </amp-img>
  <figcaption>
    If a penguin can find a soul...