HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Eighth Edition

12. Building Responsive Webpages

In This Chapter

Responsive Web Design: An Overview

Making Images Flexible

Creating a Flexible Layout Grid

Understanding and Implementing Media Queries

Putting It All Together

Accommodating Older Versions of Internet Explorer

A last-minute decision to go to the movies. A bet about the official language of Andorra. The phone number for a company where you’re fifteen minutes late for a meeting. A map to the company, because the reason you’re late is that you can’t find it.

We want information immediately, and with the proliferation of powerful mobile devices of all shapes and sizes, the web can be in your pocket, purse, or backpack just as easily as it’s at your desk or kitchen table or in your living room.

So ...