Responsive Web Design

By Mahesh

Contents..

• What is RWD?

• Who and when it is invented?

• Where it is used?

• Why we need RWD?

• How to implement RWD?

RWD is..

A web development approach that creates dynamic changesto the appearance of a website, depending on the screen size and orientation of the device being used to view it.

• Technique of adapting a site’s layout to a device display was first written by Cameron Adams in 2004

• Ethan Marcotte coined the term RWD in May 2010 in an article ‘A List Apart’

• He described the theory and practice of responsive web design in his brief 2011 book titled ‘Responsive web design’

Where it is used?Two provide excellent user experience over various devices

Why we need RWD?

• Growing Demand for smartphones

• Multiple screen sizes and mobile browsers

• Wide usage of mobile internet

• Compulsory for getting good business

How to implement RWD?• Meta Tags• CSS3 media queries• Fluid Grid

• It is a HTML tag describes few aspects of web page

• We use viewport meta tag for making a web page mobile optimized<meta name=“HandheldFriendly” content=“true”/><meta name=“MobileOptimized” content=“320”/><meta name=“viewport” content=“width=device-width, intialscale=1”/>

• A responsive designed needs to add these meta tags to make a website mobile optimized

Meta tags

• Media queries enable us to create a responsive

experience, where specific styles are applied to small

screens, large screens and anywhere in between.

• The media query syntax allows for the creation of rules

that can be applied depending on device characteristics.

Ex:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="(max-width: 640px)"

href="max-640px.css">

@media (query)

{

/*CSS rules used when query matches*/

}

CSS3 media queries

Fluid Grid

• Creating percentage based designs which are known as fluid

designs

• Regardless of what the device or screen size is, components in

fluid designs are going to flow and adapt to the user

environment

• The advantage of fluid grid is that we can adjust the max-width

and it will still work on larger screens due to the percentage

based calculations.

Frame works

• Skeleton

• Foundation

• Bootstrap

Projects

• Bostonglobe.com

• Greygoose.com

• Barackobama.com

• Cleanairchallenge.com

• Foodsense.com

RWD Frameworks &Projects

Resources

1. http://johnpolacek.github.io/scrolldeck.js/decks/responsive/

2. http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/

3. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/responsive-meta-tag/

4. http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/website-design/create-responsive-template/viewpoint-meta-tag-website-responsive-template

5. http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/fluid-grids-in-responsive-design/

6. http://www.responsivegridsystem.com/

More..

Questions?

Thank you