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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)

Summary


So, in this chapter, we planned our way to a much simpler layout than any of our other pages, but for good reason. No one likes filling out forms much, but if we can keep the noise down on pages with forms, we can encourage users to give us the information to better facilitate communication. Or at the very least, we won't discourage people from filling out our form.

Probably, the biggest challenge here is the cross-browser support for client-side validation. Until it is known that the majority of users use modern browsers, we still need to shim and polyfill, but as we saw, well-written code makes that fairly easy too, unless our requirements are complex.

Next, let's move on to the About Me page.