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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the web. There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. Web pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design"ù methodology, allowing a website to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development. Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a website with HTML5 and CSS3 which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.With HTML5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and CSS3 media queries means designs can flex and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added ñ all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of CSS3.Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built "right" for today but also the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CSS Grid systems


CSS Grid systems/frameworks are a potentially divisive subject. Some designers swear by them, others swear at them. In a bid to minimize hate mail, I'm going to say I sit entirely on the fence. Whilst I can understand why some developers think they are superfluous and in certain instances create extraneous code, I can also appreciate their value for rapidly prototyping layouts.

Here are a few CSS frameworks that offer varying degrees of "responsive" support:

Of these, I personally favor the Columnal grid system as it has a fluid grid built-in alongside media queries and also uses similar CSS classes as 960.gs, the popular fixed-width grid system that most developers and designers are familiar with.

Note

Alpha, Omega, and other common grid classes

Many CSS grid systems use specific CSS classes to perform...