Mastering responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 : become a master in RWD with this practical and engaging guide / Ricardo Zea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zea, Ricardo, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

HTML (Document markup language).

Cascading style sheets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Become a master in RWD with this practical and engaging guide

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites About This Book Take your RWD skills to the next level with HTML5 and CSS3 best practices that will give you a solid foundation to build out from Harness the power of the CSS pre-processor Sass to speed up the creation of your CSS Each chapter dives deep in to different aspects of RWD and is designed to get you up to speed with the latest developments in professional web design Who This Book Is For If you're already building responsive designs and are looking to level up your skills, then Mastering Responsive Web Design is the book for you. Regardless of whether you're a web designer, or web developer, you'll find something here to help you in your responsive design journey. What You Will Learn Install and use Sass with SCSS syntax to create your CSS Use HTML5 tags the right way, for the right type of content Enhance the experience of users with assistive technology with ARIA roles Design with a desktop-first approach, but implement with mobile-first methodology Master your layouts by creating your own scalable CSS grid, or using Flexbox for total layout ?flexibility' Retrofit your old web sites with your new responsive design skills Deal with legacy browsers, and learn how to keep your designs consistent Implement widely used responsive patterns, such as the ?drawer navigation?, the ?off-canvas? and the ?flexbox-based? navigation patterns Find the best way to serve the right type of image and how to make videos responsive Build custom responsive emails to ensure the message gets across regardless of the device In Detail Building powerful and accessible websites and apps using HTML5 and CSS3 is a must if we want to create memorable experiences for our users. In the ever-changing world of web design and development, being proficient in responsive web design is no longer an option: it is mandatory. Each chapter will take you one step closer to becoming an expert in RWD. Right from the start your skills will be pushed as we introduce you to the power of Sass, the CSS preprocessor, to increase the speed of writing repetitive CSS tasks. We'll then use simple but meaningful HTML examples, and add ARIA roles to increase accessibility. We'll also cover when desktop-first or mobile-first approaches are ideal, and strategies to implement a mobile-first approach in your HTML builds. After this we will learn how to use an easily scalable CSS grid or, if you prefer...

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgment""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design ""; ""How does Sass work?""; ""Installing Sass""; ""Downloading the Ruby installer""; ""Opening the command line""; ""Installing the Sass gem""; ""Using Sass""; ""The basic concepts of Sass for RWD""; ""Sass or SCSS""; ""The Sass syntax""; ""The SCSS syntax""; ""Sass variables""; ""Sass mixins""; ""Sass arguments""; ""How to use several arguments in the same mixin""

""Setting default values in multiple arguments""""Nesting in Sass""; ""Partial files (partials) in Sass""; ""The Sass extend/inherit feature""; ""Sass comments""; ""Vendor prefixing""; ""The order of vendor prefixing""; ""Automating vendor prefixing""; ""Using a third-party program to compile""; ""The Prepros app""; ""One compiler only""; ""Sass mixins to house our media queries""; ""Media queries mixin methods""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Marking Our Content with HTML5 ""; ""The element""; ""The element""; ""The element""; ""The element""

""The element""""The element""; ""The element""; ""Using WAI-ARIA landmark roles to increase accessibility""; ""WAI-ARIA landmark roles""; ""The banner role""; ""The navigation role""; ""The main role""; ""The contentinfo role""; ""The search role""; ""The form role""; ""The complementary role""; ""Important meta tags to consider for RWD""; ""The viewport meta tag""; ""The X-UA-Compatible meta tag""; ""The charset meta tag""; ""A full HTML5 example page with ARIA roles and meta tags ""; ""Output screenshots for desktop and mobile""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 3: Mobile-first or Desktop-first? """"Create your designs in a desktop-first view, but implement them with mobile-first""; ""Why create designs in a desktop-first view?""; ""Why implement with mobile-first?""; ""Sass mixins for the mobile-first and desktop-first media queries""; ""The mobile-first mixin ""; ""The desktop-first mixin ""; ""Dealing with legacy browsers""; ""How to use Respond.js for RWD""; ""The days of an IE-specific style sheet are dead""; ""Other benefits of not using an IE-specific style sheet""; ""How to deal with high-density screens""

""Bitmaps or vectors for high-density screens?""""Sometimes RWD is not necessarily the right solution""; ""Retrofitting an old website with RWD""; ""The base page""; ""HTML""; ""CSS/SCSS""; ""Creating the _980gs.scss file""; ""Retrofitting with AWD""; ""Creating the styles.scss file""; ""980px to 768px (AWD)""; ""768px to 640px (AWD)""; ""640px to 480px (AWD)""; ""480px to 320px (AWD)""; ""Retrofitting with RWD""; ""The RWD magic formula ""; ""The main container""; ""The Header and Footer sections""; ""The Nav section""; ""The Content section""; ""980px to 768px (RWD)""

""768px to 640px (RWD)""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783550241

1783550244

OCLC:

922539532