Web414 - Responsive Web Design

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1. Responsive
   Design
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2. Brad Parbs
   Designer/Developer
   Worked on over 100 WP sites
   6 Plugins on WordPress.org
   wrote the book “How to be Awesome”
   WordPress Fanatic
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3. Brad Parbs
   Designer/Developer
   Worked on over 100 WP sites
   6 Plugins on WordPress.org
   wrote the book “How to be Awesome”
   just discovered effects in Keynote
   WordPress Fanatic
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4. @BradParbs
   BradParbs.com
   brad@parbs.me
   GitHub.com/bradp
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5. Who are you?
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6. Who are you?
   * Run a cool website
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7. Who are you?
   * Run a cool website
   * Make websites
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8. Who are you?
   * Run a cool website
   * Make websites
   * Only came for pizza
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9. Who are you?
   * Run a cool website
   * Make websites
   * Only came for pizza
   * PHP Guru or CSS Master
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10. Who are you?
    * Run a cool website
    * Make websites
    * Only came for pizza
    * PHP Guru or CSS Master
    * John Stamos
    I love
    RWD!
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11. Who are you?
    * Run a cool website
    * Make websites
    * Only came for pizza
    * PHP Guru or CSS Master
    * John Stamos
    I love
    RWD!
    Someone who needs
    to use responsive design!
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12. Why do we need Responsive Design?
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13. Why do we need Responsive Design?
    Over 1.2 billion
    mobile web users
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14. Why do we need Responsive Design?
    Over 1.2 billion
    mobile web users
    In the USA, 25%
    only use a mobile
    device
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15. Well, that’s nice.
    But I don’t care
    about stats.
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16. Well, that’s nice.
    But I don’t care
    about stats.
    Responsive design is the future.
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17. What makes up a website?
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18. the magic of CSS!
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19. the magic of CSS!
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20. the magic of CSS!
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21. A little history on website design
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22. “Building a website with tables
    is like building a website in Excel.
    Using a spreadsheet. It’s dumb.
    Really dumb.”
    -Bill C
    osby (not really)
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23. 100% Flash sites
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24. fluid grid systems
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25. responsive design!
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27. https://status.heroku.com/
    http://www.bostonglobe.com/
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28. http://robot-or-not.com/
    http://colly.com/
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29. http://thinkvitamin.com/
    http://www.pelicanfly.co.uk/
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30. http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/
    http://hellofisher.com/
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31. So what actually makes up RWD?
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32. So what actually makes up RWD?
    1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
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33. So what actually makes up RWD?
    1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
    2. Responsive/Adaptive media
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34. So what actually makes up RWD?
    1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
    2. Responsive/Adaptive media
    3. Media Queries!
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35. flexible grid system
    Breaks the site content in blocks that can be moved around.
    Sized using ‘ems’ or percentages NOT pixel widths.
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36. flexible grid system
    Breaks the site content in blocks that can be moved around.
    Sized using ‘ems’ or percentages NOT pixel widths.
    pxtoem.com
    Figure out your widths:
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37. adaptive media
    Images and Videos that resize themselves
    http://fitvidsjs.com/
    FitVids.js
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38. media queries
    CSS that gets applied for specific cases
    C
    an target device widths, rotation, etc
    Reformat sites and move things around
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39. http://brrad.com/queries
    clear your floats
    change font size
    float things left
    change your nav
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44. everything float: left;
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45. everything float: left;
    margins, padding,
    width adjusted
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46. float: right;
    float: left;
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49. how the #%&! do I test on all of these?
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50. how the #%&! do I test on all of these?
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51. Some things to think about...
    * L
    ook at stats, optimize for
    those devices first
    * Simplify your site for all
    devices, desktop, and mobile
    * Don’t be afraid to go test at
    the AT&T store
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52. always strive to make your site
    beautiful, no matter what
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53. Struggling with integrating this?
    Ask for help online!
    Talk to someone here at Web414!
    L
    ook how other sites do it
    Google!
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54. More useful things!
    http://tinynav.viljamis.com/
    TinyNav
    Twitter Bootstrap
    http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
    Zurb Foundation
    http://foundation.zurb.com/
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55. Things to
    think about
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56. So, let’s recap.
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57. So, let’s recap.
    Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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58. So, let’s recap.
    Responsive web design is the way to go
    Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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59. So, let’s recap.
    Media queries rock!
    Responsive web design is the way to go
    Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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60. So, let’s recap.
    Media queries rock!
    L
    ots of cool things out there to help
    Responsive web design is the way to go
    Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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61. So, let’s recap.
    Media queries rock!
    L
    ots of cool things out there to help
    Responsive web design is the way to go
    Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
    John Stamos loves Responsive Web Design
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62. @BradParbs
    BradParbs.com
    brad@parbs.me
    Go make your site
    responsive
    right meow!
    Slides:
    brrad.com/web414rwd
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