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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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
Thursday, September 13, 12
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@BradParbs
BradParbs.com
[email protected]
GitHub.com/bradp
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Who are you?
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Who are you?
* Run a cool website
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Who are you?
* Run a cool website
* Make websites
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Who are you?
* Run a cool website
* Make websites
* Only came for pizza
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Who are you?
* Run a cool website
* Make websites
* Only came for pizza
* PHP Guru or CSS Master
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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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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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Why do we need Responsive Design?
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Why do we need Responsive Design?
Over 1.2 billion
mobile web users
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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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Well, that’s nice.
But I don’t care
about stats.
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Well, that’s nice.
But I don’t care
about stats.
Responsive design is the future.
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What makes up a website?
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the magic of CSS!
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the magic of CSS!
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the magic of CSS!
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A little history on website design
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“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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100% Flash sites
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fluid grid systems
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responsive design!
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https://status.heroku.com/
http://www.bostonglobe.com/
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http://robot-or-not.com/
http://colly.com/
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http://thinkvitamin.com/
http://www.pelicanfly.co.uk/
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http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/
http://hellofisher.com/
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So what actually makes up RWD?
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So what actually makes up RWD?
1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
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So what actually makes up RWD?
1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
2. Responsive/Adaptive media
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So what actually makes up RWD?
1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System
2. Responsive/Adaptive media
3. Media Queries!
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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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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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adaptive media
Images and Videos that resize themselves
http://fitvidsjs.com/
FitVids.js
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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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http://brrad.com/queries
clear your floats
change font size
float things left
change your nav
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float: right;
float: left;
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how the #%&! do I test on all of these?
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how the #%&! do I test on all of these?
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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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always strive to make your site
beautiful, no matter what
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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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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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Things to
think about
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So, let’s recap.
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So, let’s recap.
Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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So, let’s recap.
Responsive web design is the way to go
Your site can work anywhere & everywhere
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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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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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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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@BradParbs
BradParbs.com
[email protected]
Go make your site
responsive
right meow!
Slides:
brrad.com/web414rwd
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