5 Really Useful Responsive Web Design Patterns Responsive web design requires a very different way of thinking about layout that is both challenging and exciting. The art of layout was already complex enough for the centuries that it was defined by fixed elements, now things are becoming exponentially more complicated as layouts become increasingly adaptive. To help reprogram your brain to consider layouts in new ways, we’re going to take a look at some interesting responsive design patterns that are being implemented by talented designers all over the web. Starting Small One of the most popular ways that I see responsive design being implemented is to simply assign a fluid width to the columns of content on the page, which become narrower and narrower as the page width decreases until the one major jump to a single column mobile layout. We can see this technique at work on the luxury hotel website 137 Pillars House. As you can see, the layout really only goes through a single major transformation. Mondrian In The Wild Basic Gallery
Code a Responsive Navigation Menu Navigation menus used to be a fairly simple thing. Code up an unordered list, float it left and you’re good to go. With responsive design being all the rage these days though you’re faced with some new challenges when creating a menu design. Follow along as we start from scratch and code a simple but effective responsive navigation menu that you can easily modify and reuse in your own projects. What We’re Building If you’re the kind of person who likes to skip ahead, here’s a sneak peek at what we’re building. Demo: Click here to see and tweak it on Dabblet. The HTML Let’s jump right into this project without a bunch of unnecessary fluff. The first step is to decide on some markup. Believe it or not, this one little piece of code had my head spinning when it came time to test. Fortunately, the fix is easy, just drop in the famous html5shiv and you’re good to go (place this in the head portion of your document). Add the List Add The Sub Tag Progress Check Starter Styles Container Styles Border Fix
Responsive Web Design: 5 Handy Tips Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 17 February 2012 Categories: Learn how to improve your responsive website layouts with 5 useful techniques: Hiding content, collapsing content, scaling images, responsive images, and type resizing. In my previous article Responsive Web Design Demystified, I explained the concepts behind responsive web design, and showed how to build a simple responsive layout from the ground up. In this article, you learn five additional techniques that will help you build great responsive layouts. Here's what you'll learn in this article: How to hide non-essential content on smaller screens Creating collapsible blocks of content to make the best use of mobile displays Scaling images in proportion to the available screen width How to create responsive images that are optimised for different screen sizes and network speeds, and Resizing type according to browser width. Ready? Hiding content Let's look at an example. Collapsing content collapse Summary
The ultimate responsive web design roundup Responsive design is the new darling of the web design world. It seems that not a week goes by that there aren’t new resources for doing it, opinions about how to do it or even whether to do it at all, and new sites that make beautiful use of it. It can quickly get overwhelming trying to keep up with it all. Here we’ve compiled a list of more than seventy resources for creating responsive designs. Included are articles discussing responsive design and related theories, frameworks and boilerplates for responsive layouts, tools for testing your responsive designs, techniques for resizable images, and a whole lot more. Then, to top it all off, we’ve collected a hundred of the best responsive designs out there right now to inspire you and give you some real-world ideas. Articles and Publications Below are a number of high-quality articles talking about responsive design and the techniques that go into it. Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design Book Big vs. Responsive by Default Context FitText
Loi de Fitts Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. §Le modèle[modifier | modifier le code] Mathématiquement, la loi de Fitts a été formulée de plusieurs manières différentes. Une forme commune est la formulation de Shannon (proposée par Scott MacKenzie, et nommée d'après sa ressemblance avec le théorème de Shannon-Hartley (en)) pour le mouvement suivant une unique dimension : où T est le temps moyen pris pour effectuer le mouvement ;a et b sont des paramètres pouvant être déterminés empiriquement par régression linéaire ;D est la distance séparant le point de départ du centre de la cible ;L est la largeur de la cible mesurée selon l'axe de mouvement ; L peut également être considérée comme la tolérance de la position finale, étant donné que le point final du mouvement peut tomber dans la fourchette de plus ou moins L/2 du centre. §Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code]
Goban Club – Responsive Web Design par Ethan Marcotte : une traduction française Le Web Design Réactif par ETHAN MARCOTTE Le contrôle qu’exercent les designers au sein du média imprimé et qu’ils désirent souvent retrouver au sein du virtuel est simplement le produit d’une limitation de la page imprimée. Nous devrions accepter le fait que le Web n’a pas les mêmes contraintes, et concevoir en fonction de cette flexibilité. Mais avant, nous devons « accepter le flux et le cours des choses. John Allsopp, « Le Maître du Web Design ». Commentant son métier, l’Anglais Christopher Wren affirmait avec un brin d’ironie que « l’architecture vise l’éternité ». Le domaine du Web est une tout autre dimension. Mais l’environnement change, peut-être plus vite qu’on ne le souhaiterait. J’ai récemment rencontré des entreprises ayant pour projet de créer un « site web pour iPhone ». Une base flexible Prenons un exemple de mise en page. Aucune mise en page, qu’elle soit fixe ou variable, ne peut s’adapter de façon homogène à un contexte autre que celui pour lequel elle a été conçue.
css3-mediaqueries-js - css3-mediaqueries.js: make CSS3 Media Queries work in all browsers (JavaScript library) css3-mediaqueries.js by Wouter van der Graaf is a JavaScript library to make IE 5+, Firefox 1+ and Safari 2 transparently parse, test and apply CSS3 Media Queries. Firefox 3.5+, Opera 7+, Safari 3+ and Chrome already offer native support. UPDATE: Google discontinued the downloads section. Download newest version 1.0 from here: Usage: just include the script in your pages. (And you should combine and compress with other scripts and include it just before </body> for better page speed - but you already knew that). Write your media queries like you would for browsers with native support. Note: Doesn't work on @import'ed stylesheets (which you shouldn't use anyway for performance reasons). Happy media querying!
Content Choreography The concept of permanently placing content on a web page for a single browsing width or resolution is becoming a thing of the past. Media-queried responsive & adaptive sites afford us the ability to re-architect content on a page to fit its container, but with this exciting new potential come equally exciting challenges. Web designers will have to look beyond the layout in front of them to envision how its elements will reflow & lockup at various widths while maintaining form & hierarchy. Media queries can be used to do more than patch broken layouts: with proper planning, we can begin to choreograph content proportional to screen size, serving the best possible experience at any width. As I step into my 3rd responsive project with Paravel, I’ve made a habit out of picking apart media-queried sites I happen across, noting how things get rearranged at various widths. At times, it seems as though all of the site architecture & planning goes out the window as content reflows.
Responsive design : définition, fonctionnement, ressources et tutoriels Si vous vous intéressez de près ou de loin au webdesign ou à l’intégration, vous n’avez pas pu échapper au dernier terme à la mode : le “responsive web design”. Cette avancée technologique est également une nouvelle philosophie de création de site. Voici un article pour définir ce qu’est le “responsive web design” et expliquer quels en sont les points-clés (puis plein de liens, de tutoriels et de ressources super cools aussi !). Le “responsive web design” est né suite à un besoin grandissant. De nos jours, il n’y a pas un client qui demande un site Internet sans demander une version mobile de celui-ci. Le problème est qu’on ne peut pas – ou du moins ce ne serait pas très pratique – développer autant de versions d’un site qu’il y a de résolutions différentes. Définition du responsive web design Voici 2 exemples pour illustrer des webdesigns crées de façon “responsive” : (Cliquez dessus pour voir en plus grand) Techniquement, dans les grandes lignes Un site et un contenu qui s’adaptent La typo
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