Responsive web design is one of the most discussed topics on web, and a very demanding feature for today's websites. It lets the website to adapt in difference viewport sizes nicely. But, if you think that building a responsive website is hard, wait until you have finished this book.
It will also show you how to use some development tools that allow you to build responsive websites faster, more efficiently with lesser number of hurdles.
Chapter 1, Responsive Web Design, explains the basics of responsive web design, explores the development tools to build it, and highlights some good examples of a responsive website.
Chapter 2, Constructing a Responsive Portfolio Page with Skeleton, introduces Skeleton, discusses how to use its responsive grid, and starts the first project by constructing the webpage with HTML5.
Chapter 3, Enhancing the Portfolio Website with CSS3, introduces some additional features in CSS3 like Transforms and Transitions, and discusses how to incorporate them to enhance our responsive portfolio website.
Chapter 4, Developing a Product Launch Site with Bootstrap, introduces Bootstrap framework, and explores some of its components to build responsive websites.
Chapter 5, Enhancing the Product Launch Site with CSS3 and LESS, explains several LESS functions to author CSS3, and discusses how to use them to make our responsive Product Launch site look stunning, yet also maintainable. In this chapter, we also test our website to see how it looks in several difference viewport sizes.
Chapter 6, A Responsive Website for Business with Foundation Framework, introduces Foundation framework, and walks through the key features. We also start the third project to build responsive website for business purposes.
Chapter 7, Extending Foundation, explores the Sass CSS preprocessors, SCSS and Compass, and discusses how to extend the website appearance by configuring several Foundation framework variables.
You will need, at least a basic understanding in HTML and CSS, a code editor, and modern browsers.
This book aims for beginners who are quite familiar with HTML and CSS, and want to extend their skills to develop responsive websites that virtually fit on any screen size.
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