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Instant Responsive Web Design

By : Cory Simmons
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Instant Responsive Web Design

By: Cory Simmons

Overview of this book

Making your sites responsive is an easy enough skill to learn, and really pays dividends when you're selling your product to potential clients or just trying to impress your boss for that promotion you want, but understanding all your options will help you develop a workflow that really works for you. Instant Responsive Web Design makes learning mobile-friendly web design a piece of cake with site-builds imploring various approaches using a very easy-to-follow format where you'll actually be creating sites using each approach. Expand your web repertoire in a few, easy hours. Instant Responsive Web Design takes the guesswork out of responsive web design, by teaching readers the most relevant approaches and leaves it up to them to develop a workflow that works best for their style of coding. We'll help you to develop several websites from scratch using different philosophies such as the Goldilocks Approach, make your websites Fluid, understand desktop and mobile-first approaches, and master some of the tricky stuff such as making your images and video responsive. In this step-by-step guide, you'll learn everything you could ever need to become an above-average responsive web designer in a matter of hours.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

People and places you should get to know


There are so many contributors to the RWD world that it's hard to narrow down a few, but the ones I follow most are:

As with everything, the best place to find information about RWD is Google, but some sites that often pop up in my search results are www.html5rocks.com and www.alistapart.com.

Also, be sure to get an IRC client and go to the www.freenode.net server and #css channel. Freenode is a gold mine of incredibly helpful gurus, but don't abuse it. It will be obvious if you haven't searched for an answer or if you're trying to get someone to write all the code for you. Be very polite, ask questions, provide a bare bones example of your issue (use jsfiddle.net to create demos), and answer questions once you get better. The more IRC credit you have, the faster you'll get meaningful, educational, and help from it.

StackOverflow is full of questions about responsive design that have already been thoroughly answered, so I suggest you to use Google to do a site search of StackOverflow (for example, site:stackoverflow.com responsive video) for answers to your questions before bothering the nice folks at IRC.

I hope you have learned a lot from this book. You now know the different approaches to RWD and the important gotchas. Go off into the world my pupils! Create beautiful, usable, websites, and get fat stacks!

Feel free to follow me on Twitter at @ccccory—I'm pretty cool, my mom tells me so.