Responsive Design with WordPress How to make great responsive themes and plugins

by Casabona, Joe

ISBN13:
9780321957412
ISBN10:
0321957415
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2013-12-18
Publisher: New Riders
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Summary

With the ever-increasing need to view websites on mobile devices, websites have to be adaptable to thousands of different screen resolutions. In Responsive Design with WordPress, expert web developer Joe Casabona teaches you how to leverage WordPress to get the most out of responsive design, implement best practices, automate important processes, and make your life easier overall. You’ll start with a refresher on the core functionality of WordPress, then dive into developing responsive themes and plugins. Find out what to consider at the outset of the design process to save hours of work during redesigns. Learn up-to-date best practices for determining breakpoints, accessibility, and preventing website bloat for better user experience no matter the user’s connection speed. Finally, you’ll apply the principles you learn to specific tutorials, such as building a photo gallery, map page, and products page.
   •   Learn when to rely on themes and when it’s best to use plugins.
   •   Apply your responsive CSS to a WordPress theme.
   •   Learn various navigation techniques, such as Jump to with
   •   smooth scrolling or Select box.
   •   Use popular responsive techniques, like picturefill.js, to make images respond to different screen resolutions and connection speeds.
   •   Explore frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
   •   Download dozens of code samples to help implement responsive design techniques, and test yourself with end-of-chapter quizzes.

Author Biography

Joseph Casabona is a web developer, teacher, speaker and writer currently working for the University of Scranton. He has been making websites since 2002, and using WordPress since 2004. He previously wrote Building WordPress Themes from Scratch for Rockable Press.

I. Introduction

II. An Overview of Responsive Web Design

III. Creating a Responsive WordPress Theme

IV. Using Responsive WordPress Theme Frameworks

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