Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials: Design and deliver an optimal user experience for all devices

Alex Libby

Gaurav Gupta

Asoj Talesra

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Paperback Aug 2016 174 pages 1st Edition

Alex Libby

Gaurav Gupta

Asoj Talesra

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2 (1 Ratings)

Paperback Aug 2016 174 pages 1st Edition

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Get to grips with the core functionality of RWD through examples
Discover how to make layouts, content and media flexible, and explore why a content-first approach is more effective
Maximize the performance of your web pages so that they work across all browsers and devices irrespective of the screen size

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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for web designers who are familiar with HTML and CSS, and want to begin with responsive web design. Web development experience and knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 is assumed.

What you will learn

* Explore various layout options
* Understand what can be achieved in the browser, without the use of third-party tools
* Executing media queries to benefit responsive designs
* Understand the basics of responsive workflow and boilerplate frameworks
* Improve performance of responsive web design
* Maintain compatibility across various browsers

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Anthony K Wells Sep 25, 2016

As a web developer, I'm always looking for new ideas and better ways of implementing page elements and user experience features. Thus, my decision to check-out this book.Unfortunately, "Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials", left me disappointed and unsatisfied in this regard. It's clear the authors have a good comprehension of RWD knowledge and know-how but their lack of expanded coverage on the discussed topics coupled with many missing topics makes the book useful for only a small subset of RWD development.The good...* The book mainly shines on the coverage of media related web design, both for desktop and mobile. The information on video, pictures, and images is critical for sites where the conveyance of such elements is a large part of site pages. However, this coverage could have been condensed to a single chapter.* There is also some good, albeit incomplete, coverage of grid and flexbox layouts as well as some examples of page content layout shifts (aka the responsiveness) for different screen sizes and orientations.The not so good...* The book is extremely light on actual examples WITH supporting code. Chapter 4, Exploring [CSS] Media Queries, was the least offensive in this regard but I still felt it lacked in cohesiveness. At a minimum, I would have liked to have seen more CSS with supporting screenshots demonstrating topics in action. Taking this a step further, I would have liked to have seen more coverage of element repositioning with diffferent screen sizes especially those using flexbox and index.* There is some repetitive reuse of figures, especially in regards to break points.* The use of the term media takes on different meanings throughout the book and the shifting usage can be a distraction.* I think the book would have been much more useful if they had developed as an example a typical mobile page with standard elements including a hamburger menu, logo and image usage in a confined space, tagline rework or removal on page shrinkage, and floating side menu to access lists or submenus. (I mention the latter because I often find that main content gets shifted so far down the page the user becomes exhausted from constantly scrolling it into view, and then even more infuriated by having to scroll back-up to access a menu or submenu.) In this way, the chapters would have been more cohesive (Chapter 4 would need to be moved forward) and I think examples would have become more natural.Other coverage that would have made the book a gem, especially for new comers, includes: the use of floating elements for quick page navigation (esp. return to top), affixing the top menu coupled with my other favorite feature, shrink the header on page scroll, and targeting inputs (buttons, radio's, checkbox's) for mobile usage. (I think the latter is often overlooked the most in technical prose. I prefer to completely restyle checkbox's, radio's and even select's for mobile usage. Most users find clicking a stock checkbox input an absolute nuisance on a mobile display (and to an extent on a desktop).) There is also no mention of standards, such as minimum button size (at least 37px or increasing the active touch area), enlarging text size or libraries such as Bootstrap.In short, I think if the authors were to extend the material on the current topics, cut away some of the fluff and add coverage of other RWD topics, the book would reach a wider audience and be more useful as a reference. Who knows, maybe I should do some book writing of my own.

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