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Transcript
UC San Diego’s move to Responsive Web Design
Brett Pollak @brettcpollak #mwfcon @campusweboffice
The CWO
People love these things
In about 2 months… …there will be more connected phones
than people in the world
5 years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist… …now it generates
$100 Billion per year
The iPhone is bigger than Microsoft
By the fall of 2013 more tablets will be sold
than PC’s
UCSD’s History with MWF…
Why we chose MWF Find a framework
None
Student Affairs IT Academic Affairs IT Housing & Dining IT
Libraries IT Admin Computing Academic Computing Student Affairs IT Framework that required data feeds had downsides
Student Affairs IT Academic Affairs IT Housing & Dining IT
Libraries IT Admin Computing Academic Computing Student Affairs IT
None
We launched m.ucsd.edu
Replace the App Replace the App
iOS App: powered by m.ucsd.edu
m.ucsd.edu iPhone App
iPad App
Android App: powered by m.ucsd.edu
uxt.ucsd.edu
None
What about all the CMS content?
Piloted with the Libraries
Courtesy: Brad Frost
2009 22 Screens Visits to campus home page 2012 523
Screens
Device Fragmentation 3,997 different Android Devices
Device Fragmentation 3,997 different Android Devices
People smarter than us we’re tackling this problem…
The dude even wrote a book about it!
Resources RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN By Ethan Marcotte alistapart.com mediaqueri.es FRAMEWORKS
Foundation3 Twitter Bootstrap HTML5 Boilerplate
.HTML (structure) .CSS (layout) The solution is based off existing
web technologies
CSS3 @media + Fluid Layouts Media Queries
Fluid images & media
None
One website that works on all devices
One website that works on all devices
None
What about the Mobile Web Framework?
You want me to make THIS responsive??
None
Responsive design for Websites & Apps Mobile Framework when RWD
won’t work
None
RWD Works for apps too
None
RWD Downsides
Images Devices with smaller resolutions still need to download the
full image
RESS Responsive Design + Server Side Components Offload some of
the work to the server…
The Idea is to: Deliver certain components based on the
device, rather than loading all at once for every device. RWD .js .jpg .php
None
1.- Use a Responsive Web Design framework as the primary
way to deliver websites & web apps 2.- Use a Mobile Framework to augment when responsive design won’t work 3.-Deliver the frameworks through a central host and allow other IT units to leverage the capabilities Our Philosophy…