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Mobile First Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Jason Gonzales
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Mobile First Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Jason Gonzales

Overview of this book

<p>The mobile first design philosophy aims to develop websites that will be lean and fast on small screens without sacrificing a tablet or desktop experience. Using HTML5, CSS3, and simple, standardized modern web tools you can make one site to rule them all.</p> <p>Mobile First Design with HTML5 and CSS3 will teach you the tools you need to make a modern, standards-based web page that displays beautifully on nearly any web browser—essential knowledge for anyone who makes websites!</p> <p>In this book, you will learn how to set up a project from scratch and quickly get up and running with a full portfolio website that will form the base for making almost any kind of web page. Learn to develop web pages that fit the web conventions we all have to conform to. You will learn how to make responsive image slideshows; image galleries with detail pages; and bold, eye-catching banners and forms. Best of all, you will learn how to make these things fast without compromising quality.</p> <p>This book will walk you through the process step by step with all the code required, as well as the thinking that goes behind planning a mobile first responsive website.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 1. Mobile First – How and Why?

If you are in the business of building/maintaining a company's website or building web properties for an agency, you can and should be using mobile first strategies. Why? Because it is of value to your end product. You will end up with a website that is used by most of the people on all the devices and browsers possible.

This book is targeted at both beginner and intermediate developers as well as designers. It is also intended to be for those in business and management who want to gain a deeper understanding of what is possible (and, by extension, what may not be practical) with modern tools and strategies on the web. The code examples in this book, when used step-by-step, should help anyone with even basic development skills to get a deeper understanding of what is possible as well as how it is possible. Of course I love building things and I do it every day, but for those of us who also have to strategize and educate clients and coworkers, having procedural knowledge of how to make a mobile first website is qualitatively better than only having the knowledge of theory and concepts.