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10+ Testing Tools for Responsive Web Design Finally, as we develop our responsive website, we’ll come to the point where our content clean and adaptive, our images are flexible and our layout is fluid. Now we need to make sure that our site works in as many browsing environments as possible and test the website in different resolutions and how the media queries work. To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit (see also: 10 Free and Responsive jQuery Slide/Gallery Plugins and jQuery Plugins for Fluid Layouts/Responsive Web Design) can make a world of difference.
A Book Apart, Responsive Web Design foreword by Jeremy Keith Since its groundbreaking release in 2011, Responsive Web Design remains a fundamental resource for anyone working on the web. Learn how to think beyond the desktop, and craft designs that respond to your users’ needs. Take Todoist with you. February 23 Organize even the most unruly of to-do lists with brand-new Todoist filters (including a few highly requested options). Now you'll be able to: - Search for all tasks assigned to or by a specific teammate - Pull up a list of all unassigned tasks in shared projects - Choose to include or exclude sub-projects in your search And more... February 2 This month marks the ten-year anniversary of Todoist! I couldn’t let this awesome milestone go by without thanking our community for believing in what we do – helping people make work and life calmer, more organized, and more productive.
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
Tools For Testing Responsive Websites - 21 Items Even though many people are stating that responsive web design is taking more time and money to implement it isn’t at all true. It may be a statement of frustration to try to minimize the importance of RWD and start a movement against it. Designing for various viewport sizes does take time only when you do it for the first time. After that, it is easier than riding a bicycle. You’ll notice that everything will seem normal and not outrageously new and hard to implement. A problem that a web designer has always faced is testing the websites that he or she creates and this part of the process has always annoyed us, because we had to make a website for various browsers.
A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do By Chris Coyier On June 13, 2011 It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements ::before and ::after. For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. 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.
Meet the Pseudo Class Selectors Pseudo class selectors are CSS selectors with a colon preceding them. You are probably very familiar with a few of them. Like hover: a:hover { } They are immensely useful in a variety of situations. Some of them are CSS3, some CSS2… it depends on each particular one. 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. When to base64 encode images (and when not to) Introduction Ever since Steve Souders started evangelizing web performance, it’s been pounded into our heads that extra HTTP requests add a lot of additional overhead, and that we should combine them if possible to dramatically decrease the load time of our web pages. The practical implication of this has been to combine our JavaScript and CSS files, which is relatively easy and straightforward, but the harder question has been what to do with images. Sprites Image sprites are a concept taken from video games: the idea is to cram a ton of image assets into one file, and rearrange a “viewport” of sorts to view only specific pieces of that file at a time.
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.
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). 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.