Lynda.com - Responsive Design Bundle (5 courses)[TheGreatSage]

Following the concepts introduced in Responsive Design Fundamentals, senior author James Williamson demonstrates the practical applications of responsive design and shows how to enrich the appearance and behavior of your website across multiple devices. First, discover how to plan your design and take advantage of CSS media queries to create multiple layouts. Then make your site navigation respond to changing screen sizes with CSS and jQuery, and display media like images and video fluidly. Plus, discover how to take advantage of mobile capabilities like touch events and HTML5 forms to enhance the experience of mobile visitors. James also shows how to effectively manage resources and optimize the performance of your site.

Topics include:

-Creating mockups
-Structuring page regions
-Defining default styles and media queries
-Building desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts
-Structuring and styling menus
-Dynamically replacing menus
-Creating a responsive image gallery
-Adding phone functionality
-Testing responsive sites

Discover how to make your website more readable and efficient across various screen sizes and devices. Join author Chris Converse as he shares his own specialized techniques for creating a responsive site. The course takes the site from start-to-finish, from comping your ideas in Photoshop, to setting up the HTML page and containers, to styling established elements for small, medium, and large screens. In particular, Chris shows how to load images with CSS, reposition the nav bar for better viewing on mobile devices, and how to make the download time faster for small screens by providing multiple versions of your banner graphic and other images. Plus, learn how to replace graphics with high-resolution versions for Retina displays using CSS media queries.

This course was created and produced by Chris Converse. lynda.com is honored to host this training in our library.

Topics include:

-Understanding your software needs
-Planning your layout
-Adding containers, content, and links
-Creating and slicing multiple-sized banner images in Photoshop
-Linking to CSS files with media queries
-Setting the viewport scale
-Styling headings, body text, and footers
-Styling and repositioning navigation links
-Swapping high-resolution graphics for Retina displays

Web projects need to work across multiple devices, screen sizes, and browsing contexts. Web designs need to be responsive to these variables, providing an optimal viewing experience for each scenario. In this course, author James Williamson introduces responsive design to new web designers and fills in any gaps experienced designers may have, while providing a deeper exploration of how current trends in devices, connectivity, and user experience are driving its adoption. The course covers concepts like screen density, fluid grids, and responsive images, as well as actual design strategies that guide you from mock-up to testing.

Topics include:

-What is responsive design?
-Controlling viewports
-Designing for multiple screen densities
-Working with media queries
-Using fluid grids
-Building responsive forms
-Optimizing site performance
-Building responsive mockups
-Developing a content strategy
-Designing for mobile capabilities
-Creating flexible HTML
-Testing responsive designs

This course illustrates two approaches to responsive web design, the new Fluid Grid Layout feature and media queries, which allow a wide spectrum of designers to reach their target audience via desktops, tablets, or other mobile devices. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to use the Fluid Grid Layout feature in Dreamweaver to create a single web site that delivers different layouts to targeted screen sizes. The course also offers a more advanced approach to responsive design by using media queries—employing the Multiscreen Preview feature and enhancing the resulting output code—as well as methods for handling mobile first priorities and adaptive images.

Topics include:

-Exploring the default Fluid Grid Layout
-Adding building block div tags
-Inserting content into a fluid grid
-Modifying the number of grid columns
-Adjusting column widths and margins
-Building media queries from scratch
-Handling orientation changes
-Applying JavaScript techniques
-Setting up server-side solutions

Perplexed by the challenges introduced into design by all the mobile devices appearing on the market? This course shows how to evolve your current workflow to incorporate responsive design practices, without adding too much complexity or overhead. Author Justin Putney explains collaborative processes you can adopt to help designers speak to developers and developers speak to designers, and how to deal with the designer's ever-expanding role on the web. The course also covers communicating with clients and building a cohesive development team, and offers lessons on building the diagrams, wireframes, and style guides that aid a smooth workflow.

Topics include:

-What is responsive design?
-Understanding concepts like scaling and interaction mediums
-Building a team and explaining job roles
-Planning for color and typefaces
-What developers and designers should provide
-Setting client expectations
-Working with a budget
-Investigating design solutions
-Hiring team members and contractors