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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By : Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By: Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra

Overview of this book

Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—providing easy reading and navigation with minimum resizing, panning, and scrolling—and all of this across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. Responsive web design is becoming more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of the Internet’s total traffic. This book will give you in depth knowledge about the basics of responsive web design. You will embark on a journey of building effective responsive web pages that work across a range of devices, from mobile phones to smart TVs, with nothing more than standard markup and styling techniques. You'll begin by getting an understanding of what RWD is and its significance to the modern web. Building on the basics, you'll learn about layouts and media queries. Following this, we’ll dive into creating layouts using grid based templates. We’ll also cover the important topic of performance management, and discover how to tackle cross-browser challenges.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned what performance is and what the consequences are if a website has poor performance. Then, we explored what factors could cause our web page to load slowly. In this chapter, we also learned how we can measure the performance of a website with the help of various tools available online, and covered the steps we can take to improve the performance of our websites. We then covered some of the best practices we can follow with relevance to the performance of the website.

We then moved on to explore the importance of maintaining cross-browser compatibility and considered some of the solutions that are available to deal with cross-browser issues. Then, we covered the challenges that are present in testing cross-browser compatibility across a wide combination of available browsers and devices. Apart from that, we discovered how to tackle this problem and devise a strategy to get the maximum output. Finally, we saw some of the tools that are available online to...