Creating an Adaptive Web Site for Multiple Screens

This course demonstrates how to build a web site that automatically adapts its layout to various screen sizes, orientations, and resolutions. Ray Villalobos shows how designers and developers can create a single HTML document and customize its display for desktop browsers and mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android phones, and tablets. The course covers creating a basic HTML5 structure and using reset templates, and styling the site with CSS.

Topics include:

• Setting up testing servers and emulators
• Creating and formatting a site template
• Using free Google fonts
• Preparing graphics
• Creating style sheets
• Loading external pages with AJAX
• Creating mobile tabs
• Detecting mobile devices
• Using JavaScript to deal with scrolling and orientation changes
• Testing and debugging site code

Table of content

• Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Using the code snippets file
• Getting Started
  • Setting up a local server on a Mac
  • Setting up a local server on a Windows computer
  • Setting up the iPhone simulator
  • Installing the Android emulator on a Mac
  • Installing the Android emulator on a Windows computer
  • Working with a remote server
  • Testing on live devices
  • Touring the final project
• Design Approaches for Multiple Screens
  • Understanding design approaches
  • Designing for mobile devices
  • Working with adaptive design
• Creating and Formatting Site Templates
  • Starting with an HTML5 reset template
  • Customizing the HTML template
  • Using the free Google web fonts
  • Modifying the remaining template pieces
  • Preparing graphics for a web site
• Creating Adaptive Sites
  • Creating a page template
  • Putting together a menu page
  • Developing an “about us” page
  • Displaying a Google map on a page
• Building Desktop Page Styles
  • Creating style sheets
  • Building body and header styles
  • Crafting footer styles
  • Assembling the menu items
  • Styling the “about us” page
  • Styling the map page
  • Crafting utility items
• Building Interactivity for Desktop Screens
  • Loading external pages with AJAX
  • Displaying a high-resolution photo overlay
• Styling Pages for Handheld Screens
  • Resetting and hiding elements
  • Making footer-like buttons for a handheld device
  • Modifying menu lists
  • Creating mobile tabs
  • Modifying other pages for mobile layout
• Building Interactivity for Mobile Screens Using JavaScript
  • Making the tabs work
  • Detecting the mobile device on the client
  • Making fixed-position elements work properly on all mobile browsers
  • Centering images
  • Dealing with orientation changes
• Styling Pages for Tablets
  • Redefining the menu CSS for tablets
  • Changing the CSS to make other pages display properly on a tablet
• Troubleshooting
  • Testing and debugging
• Conclusion
  • Next steps

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