Responsive Web Design by Example: Beginner's Guide, 2nd Edition

255 Pages·2014·8.508 MB·English

by  Thoriq Firdaus

Responsive Web Design
by Example Beginner's Guide
Second Edition
Build powerful and engaging responsive websites with ease
Thoriq Firdaus
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Responsive Web Design by Example Beginner's Guide
Second Edition
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Thoriq Firdaus Kranti Berde
Reviewers Proofreaders
Saumya Dwivedi Maria Gould
Gabriel Hilal Lesley Harrison
Joydip Kanjilal Linda Morris
Anirudh Prabhu
Taroon Tyagi Indexers
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Julian Ursell
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Cover Work
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About the Author
Thoriq Firdaus is a web developer and lives in Indonesia. He has been dabbling in web
design and development for more than 5 years, working with many clients of varying sizes.
He appreciates the giving nature of the web design community at large. He also loves trying
out new things in CSS3 and HTML5 and occasionally speaks at some local colleges and
institutions on the subject.
Outside of work, he loves spending time with his wife and daughter, watching movies,
and enjoying meals at nearby cafes and restaurants.
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About the Reviewers
Saumya Dwivedi is currently a member of the technical staff of Groupon India Pvt.
Ltd. She obtained a BTech degree in Computer Science from the International Institute
of Information Technology, Hyderabad. She is a software enthusiast and worked on the
responsive design of Gnome websites during one of her internships. She hails from
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and currently resides in Chennai.
Gabriel Hilal is a full-stack web developer specializing in Ruby on Rails and related
technologies. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems (Internet Business) and
a Master's degree in Information Systems with Management Studies, both from Kingston
University, London. During his time at the university, he developed a passion for Ruby on
Rails, and since then, he has done freelance work using behavior-driven development and
agile methodologies to build high-quality Rails applications. He can be contacted via his
website (www.gabrielhilal.com) or by e-mail at [email protected].
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Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, speaker, and author
of several books and articles. He has more than 16 years of experience in IT, with more than
10 years in Microsoft .NET and related technologies. He has been selected as MSDN Featured
Developer of the Fortnight (MSDN) a number of times and also as Community Credit Winner
at www.community-credit.com several times.
He is the author of the following books:
‹ Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Six in One, Wiley India Private Limited
‹ ASP.NET 4.0 Programming, McGraw-Hill Osborne
‹ Entity Framework Tutorial, Packt Publishing
‹ Pro Sync Framework, Apress
‹ Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Ajax in 24 Hours, Sams
‹ ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials, Packt Publishing
He is the reviewer of the following books:
‹ jQuery UI Cookbook, Packt Publishing
‹ Instant Testing with QUnit, Packt Publishing
‹ Instant jQuery Selectors, Packt Publishing
‹ C# 5 First Look, Packt Publishing
‹ jQuery 1.3 Reference Guide, Packt Publishing
‹ HTML 5 Step by Step, O'Reilly Media
He has authored more than 250 articles for some of the most reputable sites, such as www.
msdn.microsoft.com, www.code-magazine.com, www.asptoday.com, www.devx.
com, www.ddj.com, www.aspalliance.com, www.aspnetpro.com, www.sql-server-
performance.com, www.sswug.org, and so on. A lot of these articles have been selected
and published on www.asp.net—Microsoft's official site on ASP.NET.
He has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His
technical strengths include C, C++, VC++, Java, C# 5, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, WCF 4, ASP.NET
MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, REST, SOA, design patterns, SQL Server 2012, Google's Protocol
Buffers, WPF, Silverlight 5, operating systems, and computer architecture.
He blogs at http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip and his website is www.
joydipkanjilal.com. You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/
joydipkanjilal and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joydipkanjilal.
You can also find him on LinkedIn at http://in.linkedin.com/in/joydipkanjilal.
I would like to thank my family for providing me with the support to make
this book a success.
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Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer (Web) with more than 5 years of industry experience.
He specializes in technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, and SASS.
He also has knowledge of CoffeeScript and AngularJS. In addition to web development, he has
been involved in building training materials and writing tutorials for twenty19 (http://www.
twenty19.com/) for the technologies mentioned previously.
Besides Packt Publishing, he has been associated with Apress and Manning Publications as a
technical reviewer for several of their titles.
Taroon Tyagi is a dreamer, designer, and a solution architect for mobile platforms and
the Web. He is a rationalistic optimist, with lust for food, technology, and knowledge. He
has more than 5 years of professional and industrial experience in web, UX, UI design, and
frontend development. He currently works as the Head of Design and Interaction at Fizzy
Software Pvt. Ltd, based out of Gurgaon, India.
When online, he is constantly involved with web communities experimenting with new
technologies and looking for inspiration. When offline, he enjoys music, books, wire-framing,
and digging philosophy.
He worked as a technical reviewer for a few books published by Packt Publishing.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Responsive Web Design 7
Responsive web design in a nutshell 8
Viewport meta tag 9
A word on screen size and viewport 11
Media queries 11
A look into responsive frameworks 12
The Responsive.gs framework 14
A word on CSS box model 14
CSS3 box sizing 15
The Bootstrap framework 17
The Foundation framework 17
A brief introduction to CSS preprocessors 18
Responsive web design inspiration sources 21
Summary 21
Chapter 2: Web Development Tools 23
Choosing a code editor 23
Time for action – installing Sublime Text Package Control 24
Time for action – installing XAMPP 26
Choosing a CSS preprocessor compiler 32
Browser for development 32
Source maps 33
Mobile emulator 34
Managing project dependency with Bower 35
Time for action – installing Node.js 35
Time for action – installing Bower 39
Bower commands 39
Summary 40