From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users' needs. Ethan Marcotte will explore CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, demonstrating how you can deliver a quality experience to your users no matter how large (or small) their display.
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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful
This book is available on A Book Apart. Do NOT pay 35.99 to someone for a book you can get for $23.00USD brand new.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By J. Moglia
Responsive Web Design is a must have book for any web developer wanting to stay current in designing for the ever changing desktop viewing landscape! After following many tutorials online, this book sums everything found online in a concise manner. Thank you Ethan for this easy to follow book!
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By filmbooksUSA
Here to second the other review - and if you don't mind reading it on a "screen", the epub/mobi/pdf versions are only $9 and instantly downloads.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Rob
First of all, this book is cheaper on A Book Apart store where I bought it but they don't have a facility to leave feedback. The book is good and short and to the point. To be hone though you could just read a good blog post by someone in 10 minutes explaining responsive design and you'd learn everything that's in this book. My piece of advice is don't buy through Amazon if you want it, if the price is still too high then read a few free blogs and practise yourself and you'll have saved a few quid
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I finished reading this book a couple weeks ago and like Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition it's a completely mindshift on the way you design a website. While the focus of "Don't Make Me Think" is usability, the focus of this one is "adaptability". Now, every single "not-responsive" website I visit seems me a view of the past web.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Sharp graphic presentation but skips in examples made it impossible to follow
February 14, 2013
I tried to follow the examples but when the book said things like "At this point, we're going to skip a few steps in our exercise", they jumped so far ahead and provided no links to downloadable code to continue with that it was a real trick to follow along. The cooking turkey metaphor didn't map well to the process of jumping ahead when explaining CSS layout.
Cook turkey = 1 step
Move forward in code = style up backgrounds, add sections, divs, classes heirarchies, that don't exist yet.
Not the same thing...
I tried to take the finished code on their site and reverse it back to the phase where they were starting from, but that was just a mess and ultimately, I imagine there are other books better at following along.
It might be a good book if you want to memorize a bunch of principles and ideas, disregard un-followable examples and apply what they are saying to your own experiments. That might be good, but then I would just look for a straight forward technical manual.
Cook turkey = 1 step
Move forward in code = style up backgrounds, add sections, divs, classes heirarchies, that don't exist yet.
Not the same thing...
I tried to take the finished code on their site and reverse it back to the phase where they were starting from, but that was just a mess and ultimately, I imagine there are other books better at following along.
It might be a good book if you want to memorize a bunch of principles and ideas, disregard un-followable examples and apply what they are saying to your own experiments. That might be good, but then I would just look for a straight forward technical manual.
By Vic V.
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Super insightful, this book changes my views and though process as a newbie!! Must try it out you wont be disappointed!
I dare to say this is the best starting point for everyone wanting to start integrating responsive web design in their workflow.
It's also great for a quick refresh or filling the gaps, like it was in my case.
Everything is explained in a way, very easy to understand and with a ton of examples.
Strongly recommended !
It's also great for a quick refresh or filling the gaps, like it was in my case.
Everything is explained in a way, very easy to understand and with a ton of examples.
Strongly recommended !
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring, concise introduction to responsive design
I've been meaning to dive into responsive design for a while, and when a webcast recommended this book, I bought it and started reading. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Brent J. Nordquist
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Published 5 months ago by craigk
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well presented
Excellent terse book with many colored examples discussing elastic-width columns, images, and media queries and methods. Read more
Published 5 months ago by superticker
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This book delivers what it claims to deliver
I'll be candid, Page 1 did not impress me. However, beyond Chapter One this book picks up speed very, very quickly. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Artemus Returns
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