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Professional CSS3

You're reading from   Professional CSS3 Harness the power of CSS3 to design stunning, modern websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880940
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piotr Sikora Piotr Sikora
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Foundations and Tools 2. Mastering of Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Mastering of Pseudoelements and Pseudoclasses 4. Responsive Websites – Prepare Your Code for Specific Devices 5. Using Background Images in CSS 6. Styling Forms 7. Resolving Classic Problems 8. Usage of Flexbox Transform 9. Calc, Gradients, and Shadows 10. Don't Repeat Yourself – Let's Create a Simple CSS Framework 11. Mailers Fundamentals 12. Scalability and Modularity 13. Code Optimization 14. Final Automatization and Processes Optimization Index

The foundation of responsive websites

Almost all modern websites can be displayed on desktop and mobile devices (phones, tablets). Proper adjusting of CSS and HTML code is the main assumption for creating a responsive website. The basic responsive website building process was based on adjustments of code, which once done, the site properly displayed on all devices. Now the responsiveness of responsive websites is a little bit enhanced. It's not only the creation of CSS/HTML/JS code and thinking about the design aspects but also the thinking about performance on mobile devices. Mobile devices with a web browser are now the main equipment on which people browse websites. Let's look at the main approaches for creating responsive websites.

Desktop first methodology

This methodology was used back in the day as the main approach in CSS frameworks. The main purpose of HTML and CSS code was to see a web page in a desktop browser. Then provide the mobile version which was based on the desktop...

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