Responsive and Mobile Design

By Tom CarneyWeb Programmer

Designing/developing sites for over 10 years Been working with Mobile and Responsive

Design for about 18 months Favorite web technologies include WordPress,

HTML5/CSS3, jQuery and Ruby on Rails.

About Me

“The web’s greatest strength, I believe, is often seen as a limitation, as a defect. It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility, and produce pages which, by being flexible, are accessible to all. The journey begins by letting go of control, and becoming flexible.” – John Allsopp, A Dao of Web Design – April, 2000

Quote on Responsiveness in Web

How many of you use your phone or mobile device (iPad/tablet) on the internet?

Question To The Audience

Introduction of Responsive and Mobile Design

Responsive Design Pieces ◦ Grids and Fluid layout◦ @media-query in CSS◦ jQuery plugins making Responsive Design easy

Transitioning websites to be Responsive Responsive Design Workflows Best Examples of Responsive Design Questions & Answers

Overview of Presentation

Setting a separate mobile website (same content) with a mobilized sub domain or folder.◦ Twice as much work – 2 sites that are completely

different except content (most of the time)◦ Search engines may penalize both sites because

of duplicate content.◦ Uses a browser recognition file called WURFL

(Wireless Universal Resource FiLe) – very iffy results due to the amount of mobile browsers out there.

The Alternative to this …..

Designing for Mobile

Responsive Design

Responsive Design Beginnings

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/

It is a design concept consisting of:◦ Fluid grid and layout◦ Fluid Media Assets (images, videos, etc)◦ @media-queries – CSS3 property

What is Responsive Design?

Grids need to be fluid (proportional & scalable). Want to use proportional units – em Avoid using fixed units – px, pts, etc.

Formula to figure out em for your selector◦ Target= context / content

Grid layout I like to usehttp://

matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-multi-column-liquid-layouts

Fluid not Fixed units

A CSS3 property – so it will go into your CSS file

Need to include the meta tag – viewport tag in your header

Need to setup “Breakpoints”◦ Breakpoints are the max-width properties of the

screen that you want to design for.

What is @media-queries property?

Several jQuery plugins making Responsive Design for your site easier

Responsive Design and jQuery

Video: FitVids.js - http://fitvidsjs.com/

Web Type: Lettering.js - http://letteringjs.com/

Images: Adaptive Images - http://adaptive-images.com/

For CMS sites (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc):◦ Recommend using a mobile plugin or module◦ Discussion on the Bloom Ads WordPress site

Elite team’s input on WP Touch Pro

Making an existing site Responsive

For Non-CMS sites:◦ Recommend using the jQuery plugin called –

response.js◦ There will need to be some reformatting of your

site to HTML5 to properly use the JavaScript and tag parameters.

All are based in the 4 D’s of project workflow◦ Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy

Responsive Workflow

Great resource on Responsive Workflow◦ http://

www.slideshare.net/pkattera/design-process-for-responsive-web-design

Sample Responsive Workflow

From http://www.slideshare.net/pkattera/design-process-for-responsive-web-design - Slide 24

http://www.smashingmagazine.com http://www.css-tricks.com http://elliotjaystocks.com/ http://simplebits.com/

Does anyone have any examples that they seen that is responsive?

Best Responsive Sites

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/ http://

www.slideshare.net/pkattera/design-process-for-responsive-web-design

http://lanyrd.com/2012/mobilism/sqpxx/ http://

webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/setting-breakpoints-in-responsive-design

http://www.aoverkamp.com/Chronicle/tabid/62/post/updating-my-site-using-a-responsive-design-workflow/2012-06-06.aspx

http://mobiletestingfordummies.tumblr.com/post/26346629275/ten-things-to-remember-when-testing-rwd

Resources

Questions & Answers

This presentation can be found onhttp://www.slideshare.net/thomascarney