07 Midterm Portfolio Class time

Week 7
10/9

In Class Help Session to go over your work in preparation for presentation next week.

Homework

1) Design midterm to be responsive and use media queries to target different devices. 2) Publish midterm for midterm grade. Read chapter 12. Due: The following week.

Materials For Responsive Design

Additional materials for this unit can be found by following these links:

Materials For Building a Website

Additional materials for this unit can be found by following these links (30 pages):

Materials for Fonts and Typography

Additional materials for this unit can be found by following these links (29 pages):

Goals

The goals of this unit are to:

  • Incorporate media queries into web design.
  • To design around the challenges that media queries create when layout out a page across dissimilar devices.

The future of the web is not necessarily tied to the browser window that you have been using. Chances are that it’ll be mobile. Spanning screens from large to small requires a complete separation between content and form, so that the content can be rearranged to fit the different viewports.

Outcomes

At the end of this unit, students will have:

  • Been prepared for a much more expansive web of the future
  • Incorporated media queries as the basis for future-proofing their own designs.
  • used the various layout strategies that CSS offers in conjunction with media queries.
  • Applied these skills to their Portfolio site.

Step-by-Step

15 Review homework and answer questions.
40 media queries
20 practice: media queries
10 break
70 Hands on in class: making the portfolio responsive

Talking Points

Topics covered in the reading:

Chapter 12: Style Sheets for Mobile to Desktop

  1. Mobile Strategies and Considerations 328
  2. Understanding and Implementing Media Queries 333
  3. Building a Page that Adapts with Media Queries 340

Current Practices

Responsive Web Design is all over the web. In its short existence, no big site has not been redesigned to take advantage of it, and many do it very well:

  • This Is Responsive
  • Mule Design Holiday Party
  • Caava Design
  • Frank Chimero
  • Blood, the Branding Agency
  • Women and Tech
  • Jeremy Holmes Studio
  • Adobe HTML
  • Disney
  • Edita’s Casting
  • Rich Brown
  • Etch

    News and External Resources

    Inspirational Links to help you explore in preparation for the final.

    1. Smashing Magazine’s Mobile Content Strategy article.
    2. Google’s Friendly Mobile Test. Does your site pass?
    3. Google’s Page Speed Test. This test (and recommendations on how to fix the problems) are a great way to make sure your site is as good as it can be.

    Definitions

    These are the terms that participants should be familiar with during this unit:

    Responsive Web Design article from Wikipedia

    Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach to web design in which a site is crafted to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones).

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