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Responsive Web DesignResponsive Web DesignWhat else is new?What else is new?

Twitter: @rmonterooTwitter: @rmonteroo#BADcamp #RWD#BADcamp #RWD

Rob Montero - Achieve Internet

Rob is a senior engineer at Achieve Internet.

Over 10 years of experience doing web development and 4+ doing Drupal exclusively.

Achieve Internet is a leader in advanced web and mobile platform development.

We build rock-solid digital architecture and we do it right so you can launch with confidence.

We build high-traffic websites, platforms and apps for the most demanding environments.

Agenda

• What is RWD?• Some

examples• From scratch or

theme?• Who needs

RWD?• Why is it

relevant?• The buzzwords.• New toys

• What else is new?• Themes• <picture>• FlexSlider• Bgstretch

• Things you can check out later.

• Questions

What is What is RWD?RWD?

Responsive Web Design

RWD is the concept of developing a website in a way that allows the layout to adjust according to the user’s screen resolution (view port) using media queries.

What is RWD?

http://mattkersley.com/responsive/?http://sony.com

What is RWD?

If you have a laptop, and a smart phone and a tablet you can see what I’m talking about, by going here:

•http://achv.in/rwdrob•http://mattkersley.com/responsive/?{website_url}

Simon Collison

Food Sense

Clean Air Commute Challenge

FlexSlider

What is RWD?

More Examples

•http://foodsense.is•http://earthhour.fr•http://w3conf.org•http://mediaqueri.es•http://fourkitchens.com•http://achieveinternet.com

The big question

Do I build all my

HTML + CSS + JSfrom scratch

- OR - use a Drupal Theme?

The big question

OK!OK!You get the point!You get the point!

For more examples:For more examples:

http://designmodo.com/http://designmodo.com/

responsive-design-examplesresponsive-design-examples

Who needs RWD?

You need RWD if:

•You’re starting from scratch.•You want to keep costs low•You want it to work even when new devices are released

Why is it relevant?

•1.8 billion internet connections in the world

today.

•6.8 billion people in the world today.

•3.4 billion people with mobile devices today.

( roughly ½ the population of the planet)

Why is it relevant?

It’s about people, not devices

•Yes your iPhone goes to great lengths to facilitate browsing full sites, but technology should be available to everyone, even those without smart phones.

•The most popular devices aren’t necessarily the most used devices.

Why is it relevant?

•1.3 billion mobile internet users in the

world today.

( Includes WAP and “real web” )

•1/3 of the global internet users

access the internet only via mobile

Why is it relevant?

The future is now:

•Babies have an easier time interacting with an iPad than with a magazine. To them a print magazine is just like a broken iPad.

•Websites are not limited to laptops only.

Why is it relevant?

It’s convenient:

•You’re not at your desk, you are hungry. In your email you have a coupon to this cool new restaurant. You pull up your phone, click on the link and…

•What would you expect to see? >>

Why is it relevant?

RWD allows us to tweak the layout and present the relevant information first:

•Hours of operation•Phone number•Directions•Perhaps a link to the menu.

Everything else can wait / save bandwidth.

Why is it relevant?

Meanwhile back at your desk, the restaurant’s page has all the bells and whistles you didn’t care for while browsing on your phone.

•Beautiful rich imagery.•Mouth watering brain wash•All that super important messaging from the marketing agency.•The chef’s profile and his awards, etc.

• Avoids keyhole browsing.

• You shouldn’t need a magnifying glass to access web content on your phone.

Why is it relevant?

Hello Media Queries and CSS3

In its essence a media query consists of a media type and an expression to check for certain conditions of a particular media feature. The most commonly used media feature is width.

CSS3 & Media Queries

The absence of support for @media queries is in fact the first @media query.


In your CSS:@media screen and (min-width: 480px) { .content { float: left; } .social_icons { display: none } // and so on...}


On the header of your website:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="this.css" media="(min-width: 960px)">


By restricting CSS rules to a certain width of the device displaying a web page, one can tailor the page's representation to devices with varying screen resolution (view port).

Popular Viewport Sizes

How do we design for RWD?

Simple:Use the Mobile First Approach and favor Progressive Enhancement instead of the traditional Graceful Degradation

Mobile First Approach

Graceful Degradation

• Focuses on building the website for the most advanced/capable browsers.

• Older browsers are expected to have a poor, but passable experience.

• Small fixes may be made to accommodate a particular browser ( they are not the focus )

Progressive Enhancement

• Focuses on the content. ( not browsers )

• Think from the content out. ( Peanut M&M )

– Peanut: Content marked up in rich semantic (x)html

– Coated with rich creamy CSS– Added JS as the hard candy shell


Progressive Enhancement consists of the following core principles:

•Basic content and functionality should be accessible to all web browsers.•Sparse, semantic markup contains all content.•Enhanced layout external CSS.•Enhanced behavior external JavaScript.•End-user web browser preferences are respected.


Benefits:•Accessibility: PE pages are by nature more accessible.•SEO: Since basic content is always accessible.•Performance: Responsive means fast

Really New toys for your sandbox

http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/


http://respondr.webhoard.net/


http://designmodo.com/responsive-test/

Media Query Debugger Media Query Debugger

http://johanbrook.com/design/http://johanbrook.com/design/css/debugging-css-media-css/debugging-css-media-queriesqueries

So… what else is new?

RWD has been around for a while,

but it’s far from being passé.


Here are some of my favorite new

developments in Responsive Web

Design


Zen & ZenstrapBootstrap

Zurb-FoundationBoilerplate

Omega


The <picture> tag and therefore the Picture

module.

Vs: adaptive-image, ais cs_adaptive_image, responsive_images and resp_img,

rwdimages


The FlexSlider module

Like a views_slideshow but fully reponsive and touch

enabled.

It supports the picture module, too.


• fit_text• fitvids• responsive_embeds• backstretch *

Some you can check out later

1. HTML5 Boilerplate (http://h5bp.com)2. Design Sketch Sheets

(http://jeremypalford.com/arch-journal/responsive-web-design-sketch-sheets)

3. GoldenGridSystem.com4. Foldy960

(http://github.com/davatron5000/Foldy960)

5. FitText (http://fittextjs.com/)

Some you can check out later

6. 320 and up (http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup)

7. Gridless (http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate)

8. Skeleton (http://www.getskeleton.com/)

9. ResizeMyBrowser.com10.Responsive Design Testing

(http://mattkersley.com/responsive)

Homework

• http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Media_queries

• https://github.com/fourkitchens/train-rwd(via @FourKitchens’ @rupl)

• http://www.leveltendesign.com/blog/mark-carver/responsive-drupal-theming-done-right-way-least-now-anyway

Credits

•My first approach to RWD was at a training given by the folks at Four Kitchens

•Make sure you check out their training programs

•http://fourkitchens.com

Rob Montero

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dgo.to/@rmontero

• @rmonteroo

• /in/rmontero

Email: [email protected]

Questions? Comments?

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Thank you!

Demo Time!

We will be demoing a couple of examples, one will be plain HTML5 + CSS using h5bp and the other will be similar but using Drupal.

If you want to play with this at home, feel free to download the resources at:

https://github.com/fourkitchens/train-rwd

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