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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

Summary


We've covered a lot in this chapter. Everything from the basics of creating a page that validates as HTML5, to enabling our pages to work offline when users are lacking an Internet connection. We've also tackled embedding rich media (video) into our markup, and ensured it behaves responsively for differing viewports. Although not specific to responsive designs, we've also covered how we can write semantically rich and meaningful code and also provide help to users that rely on assistive technologies. However, our site is still facing some major shortfalls. Without putting too fine a point on it—it looks pretty shabby. Our text is un-styled and we're completely lacking details such as the buttons visible in the original composite. We've avoided loading the markup with images to solve these issues thus far with good reason. We don't need them! Instead, in the next few chapters we're going to embrace the power and flexibility of CSS3 to create a faster and more maintainable responsive...