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BarCamp Nashville October 20, 2012 Sue Anne Reed The Engage Group Intro to Responsive Design

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Intro to Responsive

DesignBarCamp Nashville 2012

October 20, 2012 #bcn12responsive

@Sue_Anne

About MeSue Anne Reed

@Sue_Anne on Twitter aboutme.com/sueannereed

The Engage Group

More on Mobile @ BCN12

Rise of the Tablets: How Tablets are Changing Mobile - Noon @

WannaB'sAll Things Mobile - 3:45 @

Rockbar

Quick Poll

Why? Email opens on smartphones &

tablets have increased 80% in the past year - HubSpot

Mobile now driving 36% of email opens - Knotice

Mobile is now over 16% of web traffic ... an increase of over 25% in the past year – Shareaholic

Mobile Development

AppsMobile Web Design Responsive Design

Apps

Mobile Development

Responsive Design

Why?What You Need to Know

Examples Resources

Who is Ethan Marcotte A List Apart Blog Post

Why Responsive DesignGoogle LOVES Responsive Design $$$$$$

Need to Know – Fluid Design Also referred to as the “Flexible Grid” Stop thinking hard-coded dimensions &

start thinking percentages / ratios Even fonts are “flexible” – <body> font

sets the standard and all other sizes refer back to the body font

Images should also be tagged with responsive sizes (http://adaptive-images.com/)

Need to Know – Media Inquiries Supported by any device / browser that

supports CSS3 Two most important CSS3 Media Tags

Media

{ display: none;}

What About Email? Same rules apply {display: none;} will be more

important than everSome mail servers are iffy about

whether or not they support CSS3Some email service providers are

building mobile responsiveness into product

Resources – Tutorials Smashing Magazine -

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/responsive-web-design-guidelines-tutorials/

Treehouse Blog – http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/beginners-guide-to-responsive-web-design

Campaign Monitor - http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3764/new-guide-responsive-email-design

Resources – Templates http://foundation.zurb.com/ - HTML & CSS

Templates http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ - HTML & CSS

Templates

Resources - WordPress MUST HAVE – WPTouch Pro Responsive Themes

ResponsiveTwentyTen - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/responsive-twentyten/

http://www.responsiveplugin.com/ Responsive Plugins – Carousel

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-bootstrap-carousel/ Plugins – Slider

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-responsive-slider/ Minimize comments for mobile visitors

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimize-comments-on-mobile/

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