Head First Mobile Web by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby

By Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby

Regardless of the large variety of cellular units and apps in use this present day, what you are promoting nonetheless wishes an internet site. you simply want it to be cellular. Head First cellular Web walks you thru the method of constructing a standard site paintings on a range smartphones and capsules. placed your JavaScript, CSS media question, and HTML5 abilities to work—then optimize your web site to accomplish its top within the tough cellular industry. alongside the best way, you’ll realize find out how to adapt your enterprise technique to goal particular devices.
* Navigate the more and more complicated cellular panorama
* Take either technical and strategic techniques to cellular website design
* Use the newest improvement techniques—including responsive website design, and server-side equipment detection with WURFL
* examine quick via pictures, puzzles, tales, and quizzes

we expect some time is simply too helpful to waste suffering from new recommendations. utilizing the newest learn in cognitive technological know-how and studying conception to craft a multi-sensory studying adventure, Head First cellular Web makes use of a visually wealthy layout designed for a way your mind works, no longer a text-heavy process that places you to sleep.

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Maybe that worked in your day, but these days there are simply too many kinds of browsers and devices. If you’re willing to let go of pixel-perfect layouts—hey, they’re a holdover from the old print days of yore, anyway—and let your content flow, like water, into the available space in the browser window, you can really adapt for different situations. Well, pipsqueak, show me what you’ve got. you are here 4 25 oh, for a pixel-perfect world What’s wrong with a fixed‑width layout, anyway? The site in a 960-pixel window If the whole world were full of browsers whose windows were always the same size, it would be a safe, pretty world in which designers could have pixel-perfect control over what a website looked like.

4 Add the desktop- and mobile-specific CSS. Add the desktop rules (page 21) and mobile rules (page 20). 5 Wrap the desktop- and mobile-specific CSS in media queries. Add the media queries (page 22). html file in your desktop browser and resize the window to less than 481 pixels wide to see the mobile-friendly layout. Watch out, mobile web! Here we come! The page still looks the same in desktop browsers… …until the browser window width is less than 481 pixels. Then you can see the mobile‑optimized layout!

Told you! None of the CSS actually disappeared. Here’s the shared structural CSS that we identified on page 18, factored out and ready to go. navigation { min-height: 25px; } Our desktop structural CSS We still need to have good CSS for desktop browsers! navigation { width: 960px; } We’ll need to use a media query so that only viewports 481 pixels and wider apply this CSS. navigation ul li { width: 320px; /* 960/3 */ } What’s next? #visit { width: 240px; float: left; } After we remove the common structural CSS rules, here’s what we end up with for the desktop‑specific CSS structure.

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