Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
Publisher: New Riders Press

Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS by Zoe Gillenwater If you are the do it yourself type (I most certainly am!), you need to start brushing up on the skills necessary to build sites (or blogs) that respond to devices. It's a more unified, more holistic . By marrying fluid, grid-based layouts and CSS3 media queries, we can create one design, that, well, responds to the shape of the display rendering it. Ethan was the first to suggest a solution to the problem nagging all designers: creating functional websites for all resolutions. Flexible layout — any layout that uses relative measurements to allow the layout to resize under different conditions; Fluid layouts — layouts with measurements relative to the browser window; Elastic layouts — layouts with measurements If you've been following along with this series of posts on creating css layouts this html should be old hat by now. A relative layout in web design is one that uses a relative unit of measurement to specify the width of the page. This type of Web design (responsive Web design) is usually carried out by making everything fluid/elastic, and with the help of CSS3 media queries. Responsive web design offers an alternative. Excellent book at http://www.abookapart.com entitled “Responsive Web Design” that takes this even further. Another approach is to present different sites That's all to be done to prepare for a responsive web design layout. Now CSS code for making images and videos resize automatically and the actual CSS3 media queries to rearrange stuff can be added to your style sheet. I talk all about this in one of the sample PDF excerpts from my book, Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS. Creating responsive designs is more than just about making things "elastic" or allowing things to "not overflow" it is about making the website look good in any browser. Fluid layouts or templates that proportionally fit to any resolution; Flexible images or images gracefully scaled and adjusted; Media Queries or different layouts for different screen sizes and devices Responsive Web Design extends the benefits of Fluid Web Design by adding the ability to include different designs for different screen sizes. Best Price at Amazon Product DescriptionLiquid or fluid layouts. What are Relative, Liquid, Fluid, Flexible and Elastic Layouts? ISBN13: 9780321553843Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher.