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This session will discuss the topic of Responsive Web Design (RWD) and go through a case study showing Chapman University's process in choosing and implementing RWD in their most recent redesign.
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“Responsive Web Design & Cascade Server”
Hannon Hill User Conference
September 18th, 2012
Who is BarkleyREI?
Full-service interactive agency
Specialize in “information and application rich” projects
Decade of higher education experience (40+clients)
Extensive Cascade Server experience
30+ employees
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Clients
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Clients
Who is Chapman University?
Located in Orange, California
Founded in 1861
Total enrollment of nearly 7,000 students
7 Schools & Colleges
Students from all 50 states, the U.S. territories, 60+ countries
Heritage of equality and access- admitted men and women and people of color from the beginning
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Responsive Web Design
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What is it?
Why use it?
Process/Approach using RWD
Coding examples
How Cascade Server can help
Responsive Web Design
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Designing and developing a website so that it looks good, and works well, on any size device (desktop, tablet, mobile)
Responsive Web Design- What is it?
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Responsive Web Design- Why use it?
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Pros
Provide an optimal experience for all your site visitors, not just some of them
Once built, easier to maintain than a separate, mobile-only site
Puts you at/near the forefront of current trends; eventually, you could be ‘left behind’ without it as users expectations continue to grow
Responsive Web Design- Why use it?
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Cons
Extra time
Extra $
Responsive Web Design- Why use it?
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When you might want to consider using it:
Need a complete site overhaul anyway
Looking to update your site, e.g. remove Flash- you’re not HTML5 yet
Recently switched to Cascade and haven’t really done much in it yet
If your analytics show noteworthy level/increase in tablet/mobile usage
If you have no real mobile presence already and are looking to build some
Responsive Web Design- Why use it?
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When you might want to consider NOT using it:
You redesigned your desktop site recently and it still has that new car smell
You already have a robust mobile site, and your desktop site looks pretty good on tablets
Your mobile traffic is limited to a particular subgroup of users who all have the same needs, and you want them to have a distinct mobile experience
Responsive Web Design- Why use it?
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Why Chapman ultimately decided to use it:
The Pros outweighed the Cons
Tablet/mobile site visits increasing
Were redesigning the website anyway, did not have a strong mobile presence, and were new to Cascade
Responsive Web Design
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Process/approach using RWD
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Agree on breakpoints
Agree on standards
Desktop → Mobile vs. Mobile → Desktop
‘Content first’ strategy
Extra collaboration
Process/approach using RWD
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Agree on breakpoints
Major Breakpoint – boundary where the display of the site ‘switches’ noticeably
Minor breakpoints:Subtler shifts in between major breakpoints
320 px 768 px
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Need clear standards to build and test against
Can be based on:
Analytics data
Institutional considerations
Agree on standards
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What browsers, and what browser versions, does the site need to work in?
Agree on standards
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Agree on standards
Rollover state in Chrome
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Agree on standards
Rollover state in Chrome
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Agree on standards
Rollover state in Chrome
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Agree on standards
Rollover state in IE8
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What Operating Systems do those browsers need to work in?
Agree on standards
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What devices does it need to work on?
Agree on standards
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What devices does it need to work on?
Agree on standards
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‘Desktop → Mobile’ vs. ‘Mobile → Desktop’
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‘Content first’ strategy
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Extra collaboration between
UX Design Coding Project Management
Process is less linear, more agile
Extra collaboration
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Some coding examples
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HTML is the same for all size browsers
CSS is where 99% of the responsive magic happens
<link href=“/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
Media Queries
@media only screen and (min-width: 780px)
Some coding examples
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But, media queries don’t work in IE8 or below; used <script src=“/js/respond.js" type="text/javascript"></script> to get RWD to work in them
Used ‘feature detection’ (e.g. to see if touch is enabled), instead of ‘user agent detection’ (e.g. to see what device they’re on)
<script src=“/js/libs/modernizr-2.0.6.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Some coding examples
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Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Making the complex simple Allow non-technical Content Authors to easily
create and update their content
Custom Data Definitions
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Some ways Cascade Server can help
Image size/resizing ramifications
Why a maximum width of 195 pixels?
To ensure they’re mobile compatible
These images are not resized by anything when the page is viewed on tablets or mobile devices
Going wider than 195 could ‘break’ the page layout
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Coded as Max-width 100%
Specifying a width and not the height lets the aspect ratio stay intact
Only have to upload 1 image, despite the fact the image is resized at various browser sizes
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Image size/resizing ramifications
Add/remove/reorder slidesEach block has a name/placement
Specify image size within the Data Definition
Image size/resizing ramifications
Coded as Max-width 100%
Specifying a width and not the height lets the aspect ratio stay intact
Only have to upload 1 image, despite the fact the image is resized at various browser sizes
Data Definitions for additional elements
Data Definitions for additional elements
Some ways Cascade Server can help
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The good news if you want to go Responsive is that many of the same tools and processes you are probably already using in Cascade can help make your RWD site easy to maintain.
Some ways Cascade Server can help
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Summary
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Tablet/mobile internet usage continuing to increase
RWD provides a better experience for all your site visitors
Once built, an RWD site easier to maintain than separate, desktop-only and mobile-only site
RWD projects take extra time and collaboration
Cascade Server’s features can help you
Summary
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
http://www.headscape.co.uk/media/docs/browser-support.pdf
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/summer-reading-issue/
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design
http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design
http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/resources.html
http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/
http://www.hannonhill.com/products/demos/william-and-mary-responsive-design-webinar-video.html
Additional Resources
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Questions?