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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)

About the Reviewers

Ahmad Alrousan has been a professional developer for over seven years, specializing in building desktop, web, and mobile business applications for different industries.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and he is a .NET Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD).

He spends a lot of time working on startups and learning new skills. He can be reached at http://alrosan.net.

Daniel Blair studied web development at Red River College in Canada. He is an independent web and mobile application developer. He specializes in Android, where he has written several successful apps that do a wide range of tasks.

Dan also enjoys working with WordPress and regularly develops custom themes for clients that are both responsive and beautiful. A Linux enthusiast at heart, he often works with the Ubuntu desktop and server operating system and enjoys working with Linux compatibility issues.

Dan also runs a technology website that offers tutorials, reviews, and downloads. He also regularly blogs about the current open source, Linux, Android, and operating system news.

Martin Brennan is a web developer working in Brisbane, Australia who develops applications primarily in the ASP.NET platform and has been doing so for the past three years. He works regularly with ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, JavaScript, and MSSQL, and loves to work with JavaScript MV* frameworks. He spends his spare time learning new programming languages and frameworks and blogging at http://www.martin-brennan.com. Martin also enjoys reading, obsessively organizing his music collection, and blogging about liquor and bars with his best friend at http://www.imbibeblog.com.