Responsive Design
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This document discusses responsive design and approaches to developing websites and mobile apps. It defines responsive design as developing sites to provide an optimal viewing experience across devices. Key aspects of responsive design include fluid layouts, media queries, and overriding default settings. The document also discusses the pros and cons of different approaches like responsive design, separate mobile sites, and native mobile apps.
Responsive Design
- 1. Responsive Design Cindy Royal, Professor Texas State University cindyroyal.com @cindyroyal
- 2. Responsive Design Developing websites to create an optimal viewing experience, regardless of device. Improvements in the ability to view, read, navigate with minimal scrolling, panning or pinching Mobile browsing now outpaces desktop Input devices vary – mouse, touchscreen It’s like we are building a house on land that is constantly changing shape, form, dimension
- 3. Responsive Design Ethan Marcotte first articulated challenges in the AListApart article we read. Wrote book Responsive Web Design Now all websites need to be developed with responsive characteristics
- 4. Elements of Responsive Design Fluid Layout Media Queries Override iPhone default
- 5. Fluid Layout #section { width: 90%; max-width: 1000px; } img { max-width: 100%; }
- 6. Media Queries Special rules for presentation at a certain size. Can use multiple media queries to design for a range of styles. Most frequently change things like width, height, margin and float, but can change anything like padding, backgrounds and whether something should display or not. More info on links on our course site @media screen and (max-width: 480px) { #aside { float: none; width: 90%; border: none;} #nav li:first-child {padding-left: .5%;} #nav li {padding: 2%; display: inline;} } Can also use min-width for specific sizing
- 7. Override iPhone Default Include this code to make sure the iPhones display with your media queries, rather than a smaller version of your desktop site. <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device- width" />
- 10. 3-2-1 Approach
- 11. Pros and Cons Pros Single website/single url Easy SEO Easy marketing Low cost Cons Single website may not take advantage of the platform/may not optimize user experience Outdated browsers may not display properly
- 12. Other approaches Create a mobile website – an entirely new site for mobile Pros Better user experience Faster Might cost less than making an app Search/accessibility Cons Multiple URLs Maintenance Many different devices Best for sites you want available in browser (say because you want to have links to them), but need specific functionality - ex. Meetup.com
- 13. Other approaches Native Mobile App Pros Better user experience Load fast, content may be accessible offline Feature rich Visibility on device Cons Must develop for each OS Not flexible for updates Expensive/complicated development Can’t link to it Marketing and SEO – different strategies for native app Best for games and apps that require specific functionality/apps that have a very specific/defined purpose – Shazam, Foursquare