Welcome to Instant Responsive Web Design. This book was written to provide you with all the information you need to start building responsive, mobile-friendly websites today.

You will learn various strategies for making your websites behave appropriately on every device with a minimal amount of additional work.

This book contains the following sections:

So, what is Responsive Web Design (RWD)? helps you discover why RWD is such an important tool in your web design arsenal.

Getting started will help you acquire the tools necessary to start designing your first responsive website.

Quick start – making your first responsive web page will help you to make a responsive web page using CSS media queries.

Top 5 Features you need to know about will help you to build responsive websites on your own. The features we'll cover are the power of CSS Media Queries, different strategies to make responsive websites, desktop-first versus mobile-first, gotchas and best practices, and putting it all together.

People and places you should get to know explains that RWD is more of a technique than a community-driven project, but even so there are some important contributors you should follow for fresh, creative solutions to problems with RWD. In this section I'll introduce you to them and let you know about some great places you can go to learn more about RWD and get help in case you get lost.