Performance Implications of Mobile Design
40 Examples of Brilliant Responsive Website Layouts
Responsive web design become a very popular trend in 2011. It’s likely something we’ll see continuing well into 2012 as designers are beginning to support a myriad of mobile devices. Building layouts for the web can be tough, but inspiration is a huge factor. In this gallery I’ve collected 40+ amazing responsive website layouts. Fork CMS Full View: Mobile View: SimpleBits White Lotus Aromatics 1140px CSS Grid Atlason 10K Apart Cognition Reverse Buro Sunday Best Dustin Senos Clear Air Challenge Owltastic 320 and up Yaron Schoen Build Guild Do Lectures Trent Walton Food Sense Sparkbox ribot Sweet Hat Club A Different Design Teixido Sasquatch Music Festival Electric Pulp Stephen Caver
Responsive web design, une introduction et quelques frameworks
Posté le 8 décembre 2011 dans Mobile | Technologie , par MoKaDev - On entend de plus en plus parler de « responsive web design » sur les blogs spécialisés, dans les open space d’agences, autour des tables des web designer ou des développeurs frontend. Alors qu’est ce que le « responsive web design »? Si l’on traduit grossièrement cela donne « web design réactif » (oui je sais web design n’est pas traduit mais je laisse faire nos éminents académiciens). Cette approche somme toute logique, permet donc de répondre aux problèmes posées par l’explosion du nombres de nouveaux appareils mobiles aux tailles d’écran diverses et variées. Pour éviter de rallonger cette page avec des exemples je vous conseille ce site qui répertorie les sites « responsives web design » Media Queries. Que nous faut-il donc pour faire du « responsive web design »? Pour en savoir plus sur le « responsive web design », je vous invite à lire ces quelques articles (en anglais) qui vous donnent une bonne vision du sujet:
Responsive Navigation Patterns
Update: I’ve also written about complex navigation patterns for responsive design. Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness. Here’s some of the more popular techniques for handling navigation in responsive designs: There are of course advantages and disadvantages of each method and definitely some things to look out for when choosing what method’s right for your project. Top Nav or “Do Nothing” Approach One of the easiest-to-implement solutions for navigation is to simply keep it at the top. Pros Cons Height issues- Height matters in mobile. Responsive navigation breaking to multiple lines on small screens In the Wild Resources The Select Menu The Toggle In The Wild
A Boilerplate For Responsive Websites – The Goldilocks Approach
The Goldilocks Approach is a boilerplate/starting point for creating responsive websites. It offers a slightly different practice from the most other responsive design frameworks which is: "targeting every resolution/device rather than only the popular ones". The boilerplate uses a combination of ems, max-width, media queries and pattern translations to consider just three states: multi column (too big space)narrow column (too small space)single column (just right space). which allow the designs to be resolution independent. It includes a HTML file, 2 well-commented CSS files (with nice typographic defaults -including print contexts-) and Modernizr.
15 Free Wordpress Themes with a Responsive Layout
The most popular topic of discussion at the moment, amongst web designers anyway, is undoubtedly responsive web design. This is in response to the popularity, over the past couple of years, of visitors opting to use a mobile device of some sort (Android, iPhone, iPad..) to access their favorite web sites. Just to give you a quick overview, responsive web design allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size layout that is based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. With responsive layouts in mind, with this post we have taken a look at what responsive WordPress themes are currently freely offers. Yoko Yoko is a modern and flexible WordPress theme. Ari WordPress Theme Ari is a minimalistic, flexible three-column blog theme. BonPress BonPress is a personal blog theme that is packed with Post Formats (audio, video) features and multiple Custom Widgets. iTheme2 iTheme2 is the perfect theme for technology and Mac related blogs. Skeleton Flexible The Scherzo Renova Blaskan
Amazium: CSS Framework For Responsive Sites
Responsive web design is being implemented more and more every day + new resources easing the process are being created regularly. Amazium is a CSS framework that handles the most tricky and time-consuming parts of creating responsive websites. The framework has a 960px grid with 12 columns and styles for typography, tables, buttons, lists, images and videos, all adjusting their sizes according to the browser sizes. There are 4 main media queries: all browsers over 960pxiPad or other tablet Portrait (728px)iPhone or mobile Portrait (300px)iPhone or mobile Lanscape (420px) As a bonus, Amazium includes a ready-to-use 404 page as well.
15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering
Taking the next step of our responsive layout coverage (we recently published the articles Responsive WordPress Themes and jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts), today we are taking a look at responsive CSS frameworks that we feel are worth your consideration. Just like most CSS frameworks, all of the frameworks below will help you rapidly develop sites by eliminating the need to write basic CSS styles yourself, as you would expect. But, on top of that, they also come with a responsive layout helping you to quickly and easily create mobile-specific sites. Less Framework 4 The Less Framework contains 4 adaptive layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid, composed of 68 px columns with 24 px gutters. Foundation Foundation is a a 12-column, future-friendly responsive grid framework that includes dozens of styles and elements to help you quickly put together clickable prototypes, that can then be adapted and styled into polished production code. MQFramework
