Responsive web designing

TopicsGoingto be Covered
 Meaning of Responsive
 What is A Responsive Web Design
(RWD)?
 What is the Need to Construct
Responsive Designs
 Basics of Responsive Web
Designing
 Essentials to Create your First
Responsive Website.
 Advantages of RWD

MEANINGOF RESPONCSIVE
The term Responsive means , To provide “Responses or
Adaptiveness
Quickly and Positively” to the users.

Responsive Web Designor RWD
Responsive Web Designing (RWD) is a process of
designing a single website to be used and
compatible on different portable or handy
electronic devices.
Also known as Adaptive Web Designing (AWD).
It regarded as an integrated approach of
designing through which compelling and easy to
use websites are built, to give an optimal viewing
user experience across a wide variety of devices
starting from desktop computers to mobile
phones.

Whatis theNeedto ConstructA ResponsiveWebsite?
A Big Question ???

Why You Need A ResponsiveWebsites?
 Growing Demand for Smartphones.
 Multiple Screen Sizes and Mobile Browsers.
 Wide Usage of Internet.
 Permits wider browser support
 Compulsory for Getting Good Business

Adapting the Apporipate Layout
o Designers should use appropriate layout to suit completely different screen
sizes.
Devices Size
Phones 480px and below
Phones to Tablets 767px and below
Portrait Tablets 768px and above
Net Book 990px to 1024px
Monitor 1024px and above

RememberImportantTipsWhile Devolping
RWD
1. Resizing images to fit the screen resolution
2. Hiding non-essential elements especially for smaller screen
3. Avoid web technologies that don’t work on mobile
4. Make sure that website can be read in seconds
5. Optimize your page for vertical scrolling

Essentials to Create Your First
Responsive Website

Major Components of A Responsive
Website
o Responsive website designing is a modern approach of
website designing. It comprises of four core elements.
1. Meta Tags
2.CSS3 Media Queries
3. Grid Systems
4. Frameworks

What are Mega Tags?
 Meta tag is a coding statement in HTML.
 It describes few aspects of the contents of a web page.
 Information provided in the meta tags is used by the search
engines for page indexation.
 Placed at the top of a web page as a part of heading.
 We use viewport meta tag for making a web page Mobile
Optimized. See the example on next page.

What are Mega Tags?
 There are three different meta tags that work for old, new, and modern
hand held devices like mobiles (all types) and tablets.
Example:
Put these 3 lines in the head section of your site.
<meta name=”HandheldFriendly” content=”true” />
<meta name=”MobileOptimized” content=”320” />
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0”
/>
 A responsive designer needs to add these meta tags to make a website
mobile optimized.

EXAMPLE OF MEDIA QUERIES
 Use following CSS media query syntax for calling an external stylesheet:
<link rel='stylesheet' media='screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 480px)'
href='css/phone.css' />
 And you can control css presentation in css file too:
@media screen {
body {
width: 75%;
}
}
@media print {
body {
width: 100%;
}

WHAT IS AGRID SYSTEMS?
 Grids are the simplest, strongest, and quick way to create
page layouts. A grid is a set of number of “columns” and
intervening “gutters” (margins) inside a “container” with
any width and flexibility.
 It gives a feeling of considered organization of one’s
website.
 In the words of Josef Muller Brockmann,” The grid system
is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible
uses and each designer can look for a solution
appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how
to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.”

WHAT ARE CSS3 MEDIA QUERIES?
 CSS3 Media Queries consists of a media type and zero or an
optional expression to assign different style-sheets depending
on browser window size using media features such as width,
height, orientation, resolution, pixel aspect ration, and color etc.
 Using CSS3 media queries, presentations can be tailored to a
specific range of output devices without changing the content
itself.
 You can use media queries in different ways for different
reasons.

COMMONLY USED GRID SYSTEMS
 Following are some of the common grid system used to create a
responsive website:
 YUI CSS Grid
 960 Grid System
 Golden Grid System(also referred to as Folding Grid)

USEFUL FRAMEWOKS OF RWD
 Frameworks can be defined as a set of tools, libraries, conventions and
best practices that enable the designers to cut down their routine tasks
into reusable generic modules.
 CSS3 frameworks provide following benefits to web designers and
developers:
 Faster designing and building of websites.
 Designers can focus on crucial segments of website building-
using a grid, including a print style sheet, browser compliance,
creation of multiple layouts etc.

SOME COMMOM FRAMEWORKS
 Following are the popular frameworks that web designers
and developers used to develop responsive websites:
 Skeleton
 Foundation
 Bootstrap

ADVANTAGES OF RESPONSIVE WEBDESIGNING

ADVANTADES TO THE USERS
 Using Smartphone, Tablets, and Notebooks for accessing internet has become a common fashion or
trend. A popularity or charm had been seen among the users for responsive sites as it serve the
following advantages.
 A Responsive website is flexible to use.
 It automatically shuffles content, resizes images, and adjusts font size.
 Users are able to read information as per their needs and preferences.
 Helps encountering fast and intelligent sites.
 Saves user’s time while browsing the site.
 Helps increasing the user experience.

ADVANTAGES TO THE WEB DESIGNERS
 Responsive websites has changed the overall outlook of web industry. It
extends numerous benefits to the web designers and the company at large.
 Simplifies the designing process
 Saves time and efforts
 Reduces capital employed
 Eliminates the need to maintain multiple websites
 Minimizes maintenance and development cost

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