If you think you need to create a "mobile" version of your website—think again! A responsive web design provides one design that looks great on smart phone, desktop, and everything in-between. It will effortlessly respond to the size of the user's screen, providing the best experience possible for both today's and tomorrow's devices.
This book provides a complete "how-to" of taking an existing fixed width design and making it responsive. Furthermore, it extends responsive design methodology by applying the latest and most useful techniques provided by HTML5 and CSS3, making the design leaner and more maintainable than ever before. It also explains common best-practice methods of writing and delivering code, images, and files.
If you can understand HTML and CSS, you can build a responsive web design.
About the Author
Ben Frain has been a freelance frontend web designer/developer for over a decade, working directly with clients and alongside design agencies worldwide. He also works as a technology journalist, contributing regularly to a number of diverse publications on the Mac platform, future technology, website design and technology systems in the Aviation industry.
Before that, he worked as an underrated (and modest) TV Actor, having graduated from Salford University with a degree in Media and Performance. He has written four equally underrated (his opinion) screenplays and still harbors the (fading) belief he might sell one. Outside of work, he enjoys playing indoor football whilst his body (and wife) still allow it.
Visit him online at www.benfrain.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/benfrain.
Thanks first and foremost to the web community. Without their combined brilliance and generosity in documenting and sharing solutions I wouldn't be able to make things I'm even slightly proud of on the Web.
Next, I'd like to thank the father of responsive web design: Ethan Marcotte. A man I've never met or spoken to but whose methodology now affects the way I build websites on a day-to-day basis. It goes without saying that any imperfections or errors in the way I have presented responsive methodology are entirely mine.
Finally, thanks to my family. Anyone who's watched the (also underrated) Wyatt Earp, already knows, "Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers."