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How to Create a Responsive Navigation

How to Create a Responsive Navigation
One of the trickiest parts to be responsified on a website is “the Navigation”, this part is really important for the website accessibility, as this is one of the ways visitors jump over the web pages. There are actually many ways to create responsive web site navigation and even some jQuery plugins are available to do it in a second. However, rather than applying an instant solution, in this post, we are going to walk you through on how to build a simple navigation from the ground and using the CSS3 media queries and a little jQuery to display it in a small screen size like the smartphones properly. So, let’s just get started. First of all, let’s add the meta viewport inside the head tag. …and then add the following snippet as the navigation markup inside the body tag. As you can see above, we have six primary menu links and added one more link after them. Further reading: Don’t forget the viewport meta tag. Styles In this section, we start styling the navigation. Media Queries Conclusion Related:  Créa site Web

Building a Responsive, Mobile-First Navigation Menu This tutorial will demonstrate how to develop a rather complex responsive navigation menu using the “ Mobile-First Approach “. The aim is to present mobile users with a pseudo-native, touch-conducive and interactive interface that enables them to navigate the website with ease. Tablet users will be presented with an appropriately-sized navigation whilst desktop users will be presented with a glorious drop-down navigation menu. The whole point of the practice of web design is to present appropriate user interfaces that feel native to the users’ environment. I have written a hands-on tutorial using the Progressive Enhancement technique regarding the design and development of a “ Bulletproof Navigation Menu ” that works across all major browsers. Demonstration Responsive Navigation Menu – Click to Open Demonstration Mobile-first approach for development. If you are keen on trying out the demonstration in your mobile device, use this shortlink: Prerequisites The Markup <!

Les Media Queries CSS3 La spécification CSS3 Media Queries définit les techniques pour l'application de feuilles de styles en fonction des périphériques de consultation utilisés pour du HTML. On nomme également cette pratique Responsive Web Design, pour dénoter qu'il s'agit d'adapter dynamiquement le design à l'aide de CSS. Ces bonnes pratiques permettent d'exploiter encore plus les avantages de la séparation du contenu et de la présentation : l'intérêt est de pouvoir satisfaire des contraintes de dimensions, de résolutions et d'autres critères variés pour améliorer l'apparence graphique et la lisibilité (voire l'utilisabilité) d'un site web. Approche historique Avec CSS2 et HTML4, il était déjà possible de spécifier un média de destination pour l'application d'une ou plusieurs feuilles de style. <! L'attribut media peut prendre (depuis CSS2) les valeurs suivantes : screen Écrans handheld Périphériques mobiles ou de petite taille print Impression aural (CSS 2.0) / speech (CSS 2.1) Synthèses vocales braille Plages braille

Create WordPress Menus - The Ultimate Guide WordPress had been using the conceptual term ‘menu’ as a mysterious feature until version 3.0. Presenting the new customization admin options back then revealed a whole new world for developers and users to tune up their themes and easily modify the standard navigation – horizontal or vertical components. If you want to squeeze the juice out of your menus, check out that Ultimate Guide to WordPress Menus! What makes WordPress 3.0 menus so fancy? Since version 3.0, WordPress supports custom menu alterations. When you login to your admin panel and reach the Dashboard, navigate to the Appearance tab and there you will find the Menus section: I do have menus with my standard install as well, don’t I? Most themes (including the default WordPress 3.0 Twenty Ten theme and the Twenty Eleven theme to be released in WordPress 3.2) support navigation menus. How to enable custom menus in my theme? This would bond your theme to the core functionality for custom menus. What could I do with my menus?

Hayden Mills | 60+ Responsive Navigation Bar Menu Tutorials, Examples, and Demos (CSS, jQuery, JavaScript) | Student at Indiana University | Web Developer February 21, 2014 Lately, I have been really intrigued by responsive navigation bars. I did some extensive research and came up with a list of 60 plus responsive navigation bar tutorials, examples, and demos from all across the Internet. 1. Tutorial: Demo: 2. Tutorial: Demo: 3. Tutorial: Demo: 4. Tutorial: Demo: N/A 5. Tutorial: Demo: 6. 7. Tutorial: 9. 10. 11.

Pull Down for Navigation 27th February, 2012 Tom Kenny Tutorials Mobile screen real estate is at a premium and one of the biggest problems to solve is how to display navigation when screen widths become quite narrow so I decided to have a look and see what I could come up with using some nifty CSS and a touch of jQuery. Trying to condense a navigation down onto a mobile screen tends to push the actual content of the site down and out of initial view. Luke Wroblewski has explored some solutions in Mobile First but I’ve developed something that I haven’t come across just yet. Pull Down to Refresh Pull down to refresh was a concept first introduced to the mobile world by Loren Brichter in his Twitter app, Tweetie as you can see in the screenshot here. Pull Down for Navigation You can see where I’m going with this but the whole thinking of replacing a UI element with a natural gesture (scrolling on a touch screen is about as close to a ‘natural gesture’ you can get in technology) is very valuable on a mobile screen.

Optimisez vos sites pour iPhone et iPad Il existe 12 modèles d’iPhone différents, 6 modèles d’iPad et au moins autant d’iPod Touch avec des résolutions logicielles et matérielles différentes, apprenez à gérer tous ces périphériques pour optimiser vos sites et apps. Le Responsive Design est de plus en plus largement utilisé pour la conception de sites internet, ce qui permet à un nombre de plus en plus grand de sites de fournir un contenu adapté à tous les écrans et de laisser de côté les développements spécifiques. Néanmoins il arrive que pour une raison ou une autre on ait besoin de proposer une version optimisée pour un écosystème en particulier, ou de mettre en place un service (site, webapp ou application native) pour un type de matériel précis. Il arrive que ce matériel précis soit un iPhone. A l’heure où j’écris ces lignes iOs 8 est le système d’exploitation en vigueur et l’iPhone 6 et son frère l’iPhone 6+ sont ceux pour qui tous les efforts sont faits, en attendant la sortie du prochain modèle. iPhone iPhone Retina iPad

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

Un guide simple pour la typographie responsive : blog Scopart Le 14/12/2012 dans Développement Aujourd’hui je vous propose une traduction de l’article A simple guide to responsive typography de Cameron Chapman traitant d’un aspect peu abordé dans les techniques de responsive design. La plus grande partie des articles qui traitent du « responsive design » mettent l’accent sur 2 aspects : une grille fluide et flexible, des images fluides et flexibles. La plupart d’entre eux ne parlent pas de la typographie. Et pourtant pour la majorité des sites Internet, le contenu est l’élément le plus important. Certes, pour les sites où le contenu principal est composé d’images ou de vidéos, cet aspect devient un peu moins important, mais il ne devrait quand même pas être négligé. La bonne nouvelle est que le responsive design au niveau typographique n’est pas particulièrement difficile à mettre en place. Principe de la typographie responsive Il existe deux façons principales de mettre en place une typographie responsive. Le maintien d’une longueur de ligne optimale

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