Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It Advertisement Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices. Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The Concept Of Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte1 wrote an introductory article about the approach, “Responsive Web Design992,” for A List Apart. Transplant this discipline onto Web design, and we have a similar yet whole new idea. Adjusting Screen Resolution
11 Reasons why responsive web design isn't that cool! Since Ethan Marcotte published his seminal article on Responsive Web Design there’s been an explosion of articles related to this topic. The guy truly made a good work also publishing a book about it , deepening on what many consider, since then, should be a standard for web design. If you have no idea of what this thing is, this Responsive Web Design thing, but simultaneously you’ve been thinking and working on a way for your web projects to be viewable in multiple devices, then you are instinctively working on responsive web design. Here’s a little insight: The main objective of responsive web design is the inherent flexibility a website can acquire through the application of fluid grids, images and CSS Media Queries to adapt the content and design of the website to any device, even if it is a desktop computer, a laptop, an iPad or a Smartphone. You do not have to create a mobile version of your website; you do not have to create an application for every popular device on earth. 1.
Les fondamentaux du Responsive Web Design I. Introduction▲ Prenons deux exemples simples. Le premier pourrait être ces vitres qui s'opacifient en fonction de la luminosité extérieure. Ou encore ces murs-miroirs où plus nous nous approchons, plus ils nous semblent se déformer. Bref, ce que cherchent les architectes dans ce mouvement, c'est de dépasser/s'abstraire des contraintes inhérentes liées aux différents supports. Le « Responsive Web Design » est né, car nous sommes de plus en plus confrontés aux mêmes problèmes que les architectes : s'adapter aux supports. Voyez plutôt : autrefois, nous n'avions qu'un ou deux navigateurs et les tailles d'écrans variaient peu. Et tout cela, c'est ce que nous avons maintenant. II. Pour faire une application Web qui soit Responsive Web Design, nous devons établir les trois points suivants : Si nous faisons une analogie avec l'architecture, les trois derniers points représentent nos outils. Il est heureusement possible de s'adapter pour y parvenir. III. cible / contexte = résultat IV. V. VI. <!
Responsive design : définition, fonctionnement, ressources et tutoriels Si vous vous intéressez de près ou de loin au webdesign ou à l’intégration, vous n’avez pas pu échapper au dernier terme à la mode : le “responsive web design”. Cette avancée technologique est également une nouvelle philosophie de création de site. Voici un article pour définir ce qu’est le “responsive web design” et expliquer quels en sont les points-clés (puis plein de liens, de tutoriels et de ressources super cools aussi !). Le “responsive web design” est né suite à un besoin grandissant. De nos jours, il n’y a pas un client qui demande un site Internet sans demander une version mobile de celui-ci. Seulement en quelques années le nombre d’appareils et de résolutions servant à consulter des sites web a tout simplement explosé : ordinateurs, smartphones, tablettes, web TV, grille-pain, format portrait, paysage, etc… Entre 2005 et 2008 on a identifié pas moins de 400 résolutions d’écran différentes pour tous les appareils vendus. Définition du responsive web design La mise en page La typo
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and the Less Framework 3 What’s responsive web design? It’s a relatively new technique, first described in mid-2010 by Ethan Marcotte in his A List Apart article of the same name. Put simply, it involves providing a number of site layouts adapted to various screen widths, and then serving those layouts accordingly thanks to the use of CSS3 media queries. In the very aptly put words of Jeffrey Zeldman: It’s what some of us were going for with “liquid” web design back in the 1990s, only it doesn’t suck. That’s all well and good, but how do you put it to use? In this short tutorial, I’ll walk you through taking a fairly simple page design and making it responsive with the help of the Less Framework 3 by Joni Korpi. As such, if you’ve never tested the waters of media queries or responsive design, Less is a good way to get started and see some results fairly quickly. So, let’s do this thing! Less Framework 3 For starters, head over to The Layout The Markup Here’s a skeleton: The Styles Final Notes
Avantages et inconvénients du Responsive Web Design (RWD) Crème Graphique, création sites Web et outils communication, Poitiers Si le RWD présente certains avantages au premier abord, la mise en place d’un projet n’est pourtant pas aussi simple et évidente qu’il n’y parait. Il implique une restructuration de la phase de développement. Pour Marcotte, il est évident que l’on ne peut pas faire du RWD dans l’environnement de production web actuel, tel qu’on le constate généralement en agence. En effet, les phases de conception et de développement en cascade ne sont pas possibles pour un projet RWD efficace et rentable. Pour Ethan Marcotte, le RWD implique donc une restructuration de la phase de développement. Les Points forts du RWD Par rapport aux solutions actuelles, le RWD présente certains avantages au premier abord, que ce soit par rapport à un site web fixe et à un site web dédié au mobile, ou plus simplement à un site web fixe seul. Les points forts du RWD selon l’utilisateur Penchons nous maintenant sur l’utilisateur. Les inconvénients identifiés
Grok - A Smashing Web Framework — Grok Introduction to Sass for New WordPress Theme Designers As a new WordPress theme designer, you would quickly learn the challenges of maintaining long CSS files while keeping them organized, scalable, and readable. You will also learn that many designers and front-end developers recommend using a CSS preprocessor language like Sass or LESS. But what are these things? What is Sass? The CSS that we use was designed to be an easy to use stylesheet language. It is very much like PHP which is a preprocessor language that executes a script on the server and generates an HTML output. Since version 3.8, WordPress admin area styles were ported to utilize Sass for development. Getting Started With Sass for WordPress Theme Development Most theme designers use local development environment to work on their themes before deploying it to a staging environment or a live server. First thing you need to do is to install Sass. For the sake of this article, you will need to create a blank theme. Right click on your Sass file and select Set Output Path option.
Less Framework 4 I called Less Framework "a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites". It was basically a fixed-width grid that adapted to a couple of then popular screen widths by shedding some of its columns. It also had matching typographic presets to go with it, built with a modular scale based on the golden ratio. Contrary to how most CSS frameworks work, Less Framework simply provided a set of code comments and visual templates, instead of having predefined classes to control the layout with. /* Default Layout: 992px. Less Framework was popular in the early days of responsive design. Eventually, I moved on from fixed-width grid systems and worked on a fully fluid-width one, in the form of Golden Grid System. Less Framework's popularity was helped by the following contributions and the lovely people behind them (dead links crossed off):