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Responsive Design
A very basic presentation we gave about responsive design, its history and its future.
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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
None
None
No real browsing, no mobile site (mostly used for email)
2008-2010 Introduction of 3G and faster phones + networks
None
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!