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Mastering Responsive Web Design

By : Ricardo Zea
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Mastering Responsive Web Design

By: Ricardo Zea

Overview of this book

Building powerful and accessible websites and apps using HTML5 and CSS3 is a must if we want to create memorable experiences for our users. In the ever-changing world of web design and development, being proficient in responsive web design is no longer an option: it is mandatory. Each chapter will take you one step closer to becoming an expert in RWD. Right from the start your skills will be pushed as we introduce you to the power of Sass, the CSS preprocessor, to increase the speed of writing repetitive CSS tasks. We’ll then use simple but meaningful HTML examples, and add ARIA roles to increase accessibility. We’ll also cover when desktop-first or mobile-first approaches are ideal, and strategies to implement a mobile-first approach in your HTML builds. After this we will learn how to use an easily scalable CSS grid or, if you prefer, how to use Flexbox instead. We also cover how to implement images and video in both responsive and responsible ways. Finally, we build a solid and elegant typographic scale, and make sure your messages and communications display correctly with responsive emails.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Responsive Web Design
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


So here we are, levelled up in typography for RWD. Is there more about typography? You bet! This amazing subject is a whole industry in itself, without it we wouldn't be reading this book.

We can now say that we understand why using relative units for typography is a good approach: scalability. Also, using our little magic formula, we can calculate relative font sizes for each of our text elements in our design, but why go through all that trouble? Modular Scale for typography saves the day in that regard, and it injects our projects with awesome typographic harmony. Who knows, maybe we may not need to use images at all!

Brands can now be extended to the web via web fonts, but we need to be careful and consider the impact of using them on our sites/apps. Also, as far as modern browsers go, we only need to use a single file type (WOFF font files), which make things a lot easier to manage—for browsers to download and for users to enjoy.

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