A Book Apart.Responsive Web design.2011

Book Details:
Author: Ethan Marcotte
Year of release: 2011
ISBN 978-0-9844425-7-7
Pages: 157
Published by: A Book Apart
New York, New York
http://abookapart.com

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.


ABOUT THE BOOK

Language has magical properties. The word “glamour”—which was originally a synonym for magic or spell-casting—has its origins in the word “grammar.” Of all the capabilities of language, the act of naming is the most magical and powerful of all.

The short history of web design has already shown us the transformative power of language. Jeffrey Zeldman gave us the term “web standards” to rally behind. Jesse James Garrett changed the nature of interaction on the web by minting the word “Ajax.”

When Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design” he conjured up something special. The technologies existed already: fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries. But Ethan united these techniques under a single banner, and in so doing changed the way we think about web design.

Ethan has a way with words. He is, of course, the perfect person to write a book on responsive web design. But he has done one better than that: he has written the book on responsive web design.

If you’re hoping for a collection of tricks and tips for adding a little bit of superficial flair to the websites that you build, then keep looking, my friend. This little beauty operates at a deeper level.

When you’ve finished reading this book (and that won’t take very long) take note of how you approach your next project. It’s possible that you won’t even notice the mind-altering powers of Ethan’s words, delivered, as they are, in his light-hearted, entertaining, sometimes downright hilarious style; but I guarantee that your work will benefit from the prestidigitation he is about to perform on your neural pathways.

Ethan Marcotte is a magician. Prepare to be spellbound.

ABOUT THE AUTHOREthan Marcotte is a web designer & developer who cares deeply about beautiful design, elegant code, and the intersection of the two. Over the years, Ethan has enjoyed working with such clients as the Sundance Film Festival, Stanford University, New York Magazine, and The Today Show. He swears profusely on Twitter, and would like to be an unstoppable robot ninja when he grows up. Beep.

CONTENTS:
Our Responsive Web
The Flexible Grid
Flexible Images (Read an excerpt from this chapter!)
Media Queries
Becoming Responsive


WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Ethan’s straightforward approach to designing for this complexity represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build web sites for the decade to come.

—JEFFREY VEEN, CEO and Founder, Typekit

Every so often, something comes along in our industry that defines a moment in time: Jeffrey Zeldman’s ‘Designing with Web Standards,’ or Doug Bowman’s Wired.com redesign. This book is one of those moments. Insightful, witty and practical, ‘Responsive Web Design’ points us in the direction of a new web.”

—MARK BOULTON, Founder, Five Simple Steps

Dickens, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Homer have nothing on Marcotte, who has created this new classic. Make sure you get a signed, first edition, then get a second copy (so you won’t mess up the first one by reading it).

—JARED SPOOL, CEO and Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering 

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