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Responsive Design Thursday, September 13, 12

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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” WordPress Fanatic Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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Who are you? Thursday, September 13, 12

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Who are you? * Run a cool website Thursday, September 13, 12

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Who are you? * Run a cool website * Make websites Thursday, September 13, 12

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Who are you? * Run a cool website * Make websites * Only came for pizza Thursday, September 13, 12

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Who are you? * Run a cool website * Make websites * Only came for pizza * PHP Guru or CSS Master Thursday, September 13, 12

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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! Thursday, September 13, 12

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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! Thursday, September 13, 12

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Why do we need Responsive Design? Thursday, September 13, 12

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Why do we need Responsive Design? Over 1.2 billion mobile web users Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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Well, that’s nice. But I don’t care about stats. Thursday, September 13, 12

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Well, that’s nice. But I don’t care about stats. Responsive design is the future. Thursday, September 13, 12

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What makes up a website? Thursday, September 13, 12

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the magic of CSS! Thursday, September 13, 12

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the magic of CSS! Thursday, September 13, 12

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the magic of CSS! Thursday, September 13, 12

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A little history on website design Thursday, September 13, 12

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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) Thursday, September 13, 12

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100% Flash sites Thursday, September 13, 12

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fluid grid systems Thursday, September 13, 12

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responsive design! Thursday, September 13, 12

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https://status.heroku.com/ http://www.bostonglobe.com/ Thursday, September 13, 12

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http://robot-or-not.com/ http://colly.com/ Thursday, September 13, 12

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http://thinkvitamin.com/ http://www.pelicanfly.co.uk/ Thursday, September 13, 12

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http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/ http://hellofisher.com/ Thursday, September 13, 12

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So what actually makes up RWD? Thursday, September 13, 12

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So what actually makes up RWD? 1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System Thursday, September 13, 12

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So what actually makes up RWD? 1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System 2. Responsive/Adaptive media Thursday, September 13, 12

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So what actually makes up RWD? 1. Fluid/Flexible Grid System 2. Responsive/Adaptive media 3. Media Queries! Thursday, September 13, 12

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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. Thursday, September 13, 12

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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: Thursday, September 13, 12

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adaptive media Images and Videos that resize themselves http://fitvidsjs.com/ FitVids.js Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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http://brrad.com/queries clear your floats change font size float things left change your nav Thursday, September 13, 12

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everything float: left; Thursday, September 13, 12

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everything float: left; margins, padding, width adjusted Thursday, September 13, 12

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float: right; float: left; Thursday, September 13, 12

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how the #%&! do I test on all of these? Thursday, September 13, 12

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how the #%&! do I test on all of these? Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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always strive to make your site beautiful, no matter what Thursday, September 13, 12

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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! Thursday, September 13, 12

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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/ Thursday, September 13, 12

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Things to think about Thursday, September 13, 12

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So, let’s recap. Thursday, September 13, 12

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So, let’s recap. Your site can work anywhere & everywhere Thursday, September 13, 12

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So, let’s recap. Responsive web design is the way to go Your site can work anywhere & everywhere Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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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 Thursday, September 13, 12

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@BradParbs BradParbs.com [email protected] Go make your site responsive right meow! Slides: brrad.com/web414rwd Thursday, September 13, 12