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Nico Verbruggen
April 22, 2013
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Responsive Design
A very basic presentation we gave about responsive design, its history and its future.
Nico Verbruggen
April 22, 2013
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Transcript
RESPONSIVE DESIGN by Tim Vermaercke, Gertjan Vermeir & Nico Verbruggen
Contents • Introduction • History of mobile browsing & design
• Why implement a responsive design? • Implementation (how-to) • Short demonstration
Introduction A brief explanation of responsive design
What is responsive design? • creating a website design that
supports: ◦ multiple screen sizes using a grid-based system
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What is responsive design? • creating a website design that
supports: ◦ multiple screen sizes ◦ multiple input methods mouse/trackpad, finger(s)
None
History of the mobile web How we got to this
point
2007 Year of the new smartphones
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None
No real browsing, no mobile site (mostly used for email)
2008-2010 Introduction of 3G and faster phones + networks
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3G > EDGE no 'fast' internet, but used for some
browsing (!) some request for mobile websites
2010 Introduction of the first tablets
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2011-2012 More and more tablets, more and more smartphones (more
Android!)
Adaptive design (a dynamic site where adaptation occurs server-side)
Responsive design (a dynamic site where adaptation occurs client-side)
Today 4G, many tablets, many smartphones more mobile browsing
4G: faster than WiFi (limited availability in Belgium)
Adobe Digital Marketing Analysis (March 2013, data from February '13)
(http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/digital-index/tablets-trump-smartphones-in-global-website-traffic/)
Adobe Digital Marketing Analysis (March 2013, data from February '13)
(http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/digital-index/tablets-trump-smartphones-in-global-website-traffic/)
Why we chose responsive design
Web developer • World Wide Web applications • Up to
date • New methods • Technical • Design
The rising demand
Why implement a responsive design?
Twice the work Lyrics Designs Coding
By 2020, mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage
None
Techniques
Device awareness since CSS 2.1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="screen.css" media="screen"
/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css" media="print" />
Acceptable Media Types
None
iPhone 3G 320 by 480 pixels iPhone 5 640 by
1,136 pixels
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="handheld" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"
media="handheld and (max- device-width: 320px)” />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="handheld and (max-device-width: 320px)” /> Media
type Media query
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="handheld and (max-device-width: 1136px) and (resolution:
326ppi)” /> Keyword to chain properties together
@media screen and (max-device-width: 1136px) { body { background: #000;
color: #FFF; } }
@import url(‘style.css’) screen and (max- device-width: 1136px);
media queries = conditional
Questions?
Some extra time Here's some examples
a list apart
designed to move
and many more...
Thank you for your attention!