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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the web. There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. Web pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design"ù methodology, allowing a website to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development. Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a website with HTML5 and CSS3 which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.With HTML5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and CSS3 media queries means designs can flex and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added ñ all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of CSS3.Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built "right" for today but also the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3

In the previous chapter we learned about some quick and useful CSS3 techniques to aid in building responsive designs. We also made a big difference to the visuals by employing the CSS3 @font-face rule to apply custom typography and learned about CSS3's tools for selecting DOM elements. So, with some CSS3 basics covered, let's look at some more advanced features of CSS3; how we can give a responsive design an aesthetic lift by using some of the more exciting CSS3 techniques that, for the vast majority, don't require a single graphics image, making our responsive design as bandwidth friendly as possible.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • How to create text-shadows with CSS3

  • How to create box-shadows (drop shadows) with CSS3

  • Making gradient backgrounds with CSS3

  • Using multiple backgrounds with CSS3

  • Using CSS3 background gradients to make patterns

  • Using the CSS3 @font-face rule to make bandwidth friendly icons

At this point I'm going to reiterate why I believe CSS3...