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Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web
Author(s): Tim Kadlec (Author), Aaron Gustafson (Foreword)
- Publisher: New Riders Pub
- Publication Date: January 1, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 271 pages
- ISBN-10: 0321821688
- ISBN-13: 9780321821683
Book Description
New devices and platforms emerge daily. Browsers iterate at a remarkable pace. Faced with this volatile landscape we can either struggle for control or we can embrace the inherent flexibility of the web.Responsive design is not just another technique–it is the beginning of the maturation of a medium and a fundamental shift in the way we think about the web.Implementing Responsive Design is a discussion about how this affects the way we design, build, and think about our sites. Readers will learn how to:
- Build responsive sites using a combination of fluid layouts, media queries and fluid media
- Adopt a responsive workflow from the very start of a project
- Enhance content for different devices
- Use feature-detection and server-side enhancement to provide a richer experience
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Anyone interested in better understanding and developing for today (and tomorrow’s) fast-changing web will benefit from this engaging and well researched book.” — Stephanie Rieger, Yiibu
“Tim provides a treasure trove of techniques and considerations to help you create future-friendly, multi-screen web experiences.” —
Brad Frost, Mobile Web Strategist, R/GA New York“Trust me when I say you need this book.” —
Aaron Gustafson, Author, Adaptive Web Design“As one of the founders of the Breaking Development conference, Tim brought together the latest thinking about multi-device Web design. Now as an author, he’s put it all together into a practical guide to building for today’s Web and beyond.” —
Luke Wroblewski, Author, Mobile First“.. it is refreshing to have what previously was a series of disjointed components all covered in single book. ” —
Aidan Foster, Website Project Manager and UI DesignerAbout the Author
Tim Kadlec is a web developer living in northern Wisconsin. His diverse background working with small companies to large publishers and industrial corporations has allowed him to see how the careful application of web technologies can impact businesses of all sizes. He is the co-founder of Breaking Development Conference (bdconf.com), one of the first conferences dedicated to design and development for mobile devices using web technologies. He also writes about a variety of topics at timkadlec.com.
