Refresh Richmond, Responsive Web Design

Deck from @eecoder and I's presentation on Responsive Web Design at Refresh Richmond in June of 2012.

1. Refresh Richmond Responsive Design Ben Callahan @bencallahan Shawn Maida @eecoder Thursday, June 21, 12
2. The web is not fixed-width. Thursday, June 21, 12
3. The shift to mobile Over 60% of new handset sales are smartphones. Thursday, June 21, 12
4. There are more mobile phones on the planet than there are TVs. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
5. 91% of US consumers have their mobile device within reach 24/7. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
6. Mobile devices account for 8.5% of global web traffic. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
7. 25% of US mobile web users are mobile-only web users. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
8. Apple sold around 13 million iPads in Q4 of 2011. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
9. Amazon sold over 4 million Kindle Fires in December of 2011. The shift to mobile Thursday, June 21, 12
10. Flexibility is the new norm. Mobile internet usage is predicted to overtake desktop in the next two years. Thursday, June 21, 12
11. Flexibility is the new norm. People are trying to browse your websites on these devices, today. Thursday, June 21, 12
12. Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte • article on alistapart.com • book via A Book Apart Thursday, June 21, 12
13. Responsive Web Design • A flexible foundation (fluid grid) • Flexible content (images, video, etc.) • Media queries Thursday, June 21, 12
14. Responsive Web Design live code demo Thursday, June 21, 12
15. Responsive Web Design • A flexible foundation (fluid grid) • Flexible content (images, video, etc.) • Media queries Thursday, June 21, 12
16. A Flexible Foundation Fixed-Width Fluid div { width: 100px; } div { width: ??%; } Thursday, June 21, 12
17. A Flexible Foundation div { width: 100px; } div { width: 10%; } Fixed-Width Fluid (if parent is 1000px wide) 100 / 1000 = .1 Thursday, June 21, 12
18. A Flexible Foundation www.semantic.gs susy.oddbird.net with CSS Precompiler Thursday, June 21, 12
19. Flexible Content img { max-width: 100%; } Thursday, June 21, 12
20. Flexible Content http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-fluid-width-videos • set width to 100%, remove height • add a wrapper to maintain aspect ratio • use JS to detect and maintain size Thursday, June 21, 12
21. Media Queries • width, height • device-width, device-height • orientation • aspect ratio • several others http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ Thursday, June 21, 12
22. Media Queries @media all and (min-width: 600px) { /* styles for 600px and up here small-rez first */ } @media all and (max-width: 600px) { /* styles for 600px and down here large-rez first */ } Thursday, June 21, 12
23. Media Queries Large Resolution First PRO: IE works by default CON: Smallest devices load all assets Small Resolution First PRO: More logical (build up vs tear down) CON: IE support is tricky Thursday, June 21, 12
24. Process Design & planning deliverables become very difficult to define when so many resolutions are supported. http://bit.ly/M6TOlF Thursday, June 21, 12
25. Think Responsively Thursday, June 21, 12
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28. Questions? Ben Callahan @bencallahan Shawn Maida @eecoder Thursday, June 21, 12