December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
22h 14m
English
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Chapter 14. Responsive Web Design
Web designers have always had to contend with designing for various screen sizes—from 760-pixel-wide laptops to gargantuan widescreen displays. However, the rise of smartphones and tablets has now made it even more imperative to design for a wide range of screen widths and heights. Some companies go so far as to create separate, mobile-only websites (see the top images in Figure 14-1). However, unless you have the time, money, and technical expertise to develop two sites and program your web server to provide the proper site to the proper device, a mobile-only website is probably out of reach.
Fortunately, there’s another, simpler approach that lets you build a single site that adapts to different device widths (see bottom images in Figure 14-1). Called responsive web design, this technique uses several different tricks to make a page change its layout based on the width of the browser screen. On a smartphone, for example, you can lay out a page in a single, easy-to-read column to fit the narrow width of the screen (bottom-left image in Figure 14-1), while maintaining a multicolumn layout on wider monitors (bottom-right image in Figure 14-1).
Figure 14-1. Many large companies, like Amazon and Target, create mobile versions of their sites, optimized for display on handheld devices like the iPhone (top). Fortunately, using responsive web design techniques, ...
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