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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)

Making the wireframes


Let's take a look at some wireframes for this page. For these examples, I am going to assume that this is a portfolio site for a one person. But if you had a small group, you would probably want to reconsider this layout. We will discuss more on this later. For now, here are the wireframes for the mobile view. First, the top part of the page (under the marquee, which will remain consistent):

Notice that we have three services listed and stacked. We're going to use the set of included icons to make big, eye-catching icons to the left of each service/skill described. Below the icon we will put the obligatory headshot and bio:

Now here is how we will use the same content on a wider desktop layout:

We'll use the wider layout of this page to put some of the content on the sidebar. This has the benefit of letting users see more content without scrolling.