Responsive Web Design

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Responsive Web Design
and other buzz wordsyou need to
know Twitter_at_rmonteroo drupalcampLA RWD
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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 the Enterprise
  Drupal market. We've built some of the most
  dynamic and expansive Drupal websites on the
  market today for organizations such as Penton
  Media, Disney, NBC Universal, VIacom,
  FastCompany, Bella Pictures, and LifetimeTV.

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What is RWD?
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Responsive Web Design
RWD is the concept of developing a website in a
way that allows the layout to adjust according to
the users screen resolution (view port) using
media queries
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What isRWD?
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What is RWD?
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http//mattkersley.com/responsive/?http//sony.com
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What is RWD?
If you have a laptop, and a smart phone and a
tablet you can see what Im talking about, by
going here http//achv.in/rwdrob http//mattkers
ley.com/responsive/?website_url
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Simon Collison
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Food Sense
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Clean Air Commute Challenge
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FlexSlider
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What is RWD?

• More examples
• http//foodsense.is
• http//earthhour.fr
• http//w3conf.org
• http//mediaqueri.es
• http//fourkitchens.com

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OK!
You get the point! For more examples http//desi
gnmodo.com/ responsive-design-examples
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Who needs RWD?

• You need RWD if
• Youre starting from scratch.
• You want to keep costs low
• You want it to work even when new devices are
  released

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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)

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Why is it relevant?

• Its 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 arent necessarily the
  most used devices.

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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

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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.

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Why is it relevant?

• Its convenient
• Youre 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?

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Why is it relevant?
RWD allows us to tweak the layout and present the
relevant information first hours, phone number,
directions and perhaps a link to the
menu. Meanwhile back at your desk, the
restaurants page has all the bells and whistles
you didnt care for while browsing on your phone.
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Why is it relevant?

• Avoids keyhole browsing.
• You shouldnt need a magnifying glass to access
  web content on your phone.

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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.
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CSS3 Media Queries
The absence of support for _at_media queries is in
fact the first _at_media query.
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CSS3 Media Queries
In your CSS _at_media screen and (min-width 480px)
.content float left .social_icons
display none // and so on...
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CSS3 Media Queries
On the header of your website ltlink
rel"stylesheet" href"this.css"
media"(min-width 960px)"gt
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CSS3 Media Queries
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).
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Popular Viewport Sizes
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How do we design for RWD
Simple Use the Mobile First Approach and favor
Progressive Enhancement instead of the
traditional Graceful Degradation
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Mobile First Approach
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Mobile First Approach
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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 )

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Progressive Enhancement

• Focuses on the content. ( not browsers )
• Think from the content out. ( Peanut MM )
• Peanut Content marked up in rich semantic
  (x)html
• Coated with rich creamy CSS
• Added JS as the hard candy shell

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Progressive Enhancement

• 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

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Progressive Enhancement

• Benefits
• Accessibility PE pages are by nature more
  accessible.
• SEO Since basic content is always accessible

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New toys for your sandbox

1. HTML5 Boilerplate (http//h5bp.com)
2. Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheets gtgt
3. GoldenGridSystem.com gtgt
4. Foldy960 gtgt
5. FitText (http//fittextjs.com/) gtgt

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New toys for your sandbox

• 320 and up gtgt
• Gridless gtgt
• Skeleton (http//www.getskeleton.com/)
• ResizeMyBrowser.com gtgt
• Responsive Design Testing gtgt
• Bonus Media Query Indicator gtgt

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Homework

• http//www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries.
• https//developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Media_queries
  
• https//github.com/fourkitchens/train-rwd

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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//fourkitc
hens.com
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Thank You

• Rob Montero
• dgo.to/_at_rmontero
• _at_rmonteroo
• /in/rmontero

Questions? Comments? Email me at
rmontero_at_achieveinternet.com
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Hands on
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