Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3: Learn Responsive Design Using Html5 and Css3 to Adapt Websites to Any Browser or Screen Size

Responsive web design, in my opinion, represents huge potential for business web development. It can be so easy to view it as just another buzzword, more marketing jargon if you may but if you take the time to understand what is means for web development, you will see its pretty hot with huge potential.Many people, I suspect, are unclear on what exactly Responsive web design is, what does it mean. Indeed, I thought ' ooh not another book on fluid layouts '. Far from it, I can assure you. The author moves through a well worked out movie website project to show that Responsive web design is not a huge single monolithic thing but instead a series of existing technologies ( HTML5, CSS3 ) and design techniques ( flexible grid layout, flexible images and media and media queries ). The majority of the book naturally focuses on HTML5 and CSS3 and the powerful enhancements these technologies bring forth. In addition to their application in Responsive web design the author explores new HTML5 elements ( the semantically meaningful nav element and many more for example ) and shows the vast improvements in CSS3 aesthetics. I particularly loved the simplicity of Text Shadows but we also have Transitions, Transformations and Animations. All very, very useful stuff.HTML5 and CSS3 are maturing technologies, best to keep this in mind. Hence, to make available the majority of their features in older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6,7 and to a lesser extent 8, not to mention running your site across multiple browsers, a JavaScript tool called Modernizr is required. The last chapter explores this tool.Readers should have familiarity with previous versions of HTML markup and CSS selectors to gain maximum benefit. The book is really a joy to read and perhaps a launching pad for interesting developments yet to come. Wonderful stuff.

The author is clearly knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the subject. The text is clear, to the point and even entertaining.I have to ask, though, if the text was edited at all, or even proofread. The text is filled with basic grammatical errors that I can understand finding their way into a draft, but which should have been picked up by the editor. They all appear to be minor, at least so far, but they still detract from the overall quality of the book.I bought the Kindle version, so I don't know if the print version got a better going over than the ebook. Unfortunately, this is a problem that I run up against regularly with ebooks, especially ebooks from established publishers.Back when I was in journalism school, one of the first things we learned was that our copy needed to be as grammatically clean as we could make it. If you weren't careful enough to ensure that your writing was correct, the thinking went, the reader would ultimately question the validity of your reporting. I think the same principle applies here.

I found this book Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 was a great read. I am learning and trying to refine my craft with HTML5 and CSS3 and I found this book very easy to follow and I really enjoyed how the book didn't just speak in theory but gave many real examples of how to implement them in real world applications.The author wrote this book in a very easy to follow manner. His delivery of subject with his humor interjected in it made it easy to read and was not in a dry and boring manner. I also like how the author gave links to reference material that can help us web designers/developers with our craft.I was one that was learning to create responsive websites using HTML4 and now I am glad to see after reading this book how easy it is and much less complicated it is going forward.I look forward to reading further works by this author.

It's a good book but a little difficult to build some of the examples. The video handling example on pages 126 and 127 does not work! And the main project's CSS doesn't show all the code necessary to build the example page until nearly half-way into the book, i.e. the flag banner t the top and bottom of the page.

Responsive web design is about coding your web page(s) so they display optimally in a browser whether it be a cell phone, tablet, or your home PC.If you are familiar with HTML and CSS then you will find this book an easy read filled with excellent examples and many screen shots. Although it is an easy read the author covers all subjects in detail which also makes it an excellent reference.A subject that I found particularly useful was his coverage on making older browsers HTML5 compliant with the use of a javascript plugin called "modernizr.js" Until I read this book my impression was that "modernizr" simply adds a number of HTML5 tags that are missing from older browsers. The book goes on to explain that moderinizr also adds a bundle of browser-dependant classes to the <html> tag and provides numerous examples on how to use these classes to create lightweight webpages. This alone is worth the price of the book.Each topic is dealt with to an acceptable depth with web-references if you wish to delve deeper.The book does justice to the title ... highly recommended.

The material covered in this book is perfect. The way it is covered leaves something to be desired. There's some irony here, since it's a book about design. The author does an excellent job of setting up what problem we're trying to solve and what tools we'll use to solve it, but then leaves out so much of the code (and what code gets included is confusing and strangely ordered) that it is impossible to rebuild the follow-along sample project without downloading the code from the publisher's website, which sort of defeats the purpose. I think this book would benefit from some careful thought about how to include enough information to rebuild the sample project along with the book and a passover by a good copy editor.

Good introduction if you need an overview of responsive concepts and related CSS technologies. Not too long, not always great, but still a good resource to clear your ideas about this tema.

Written to the point, good examples and very well structured. Of course you can google all you want but when it is indexed and in front of you, it's so much easier. Good buy. When I bought it, it was priced cheaper here than all the other websites including Flipkart where I am a regular. :) Happy.

This book acts as an introduction then as a quick reminder to a long term web developer like me.Worth getting for the library.

I've been debating whether to buy this book for some months, due to trying to find the information myself on the web and the book reviews. I can say that I'm glad that I have bought this book because it gives you all the information you need for creating a responsive website.The problem is that when searching on the web is that people have different ways and recommendations of creating a responsive website. So you start to follow one technique and then they don't cover all the areas or have too many conflicting ideas with other techniques. This is a problem when trying to search on the web! This book does contain everything you need to know from start to finish. Yes, the images are in black and white but that does not matter and some of the code is spread over a couple of pages. But this does not matter at all, the code is just an example. It's very easy to get the fundamentals and start straight away.I would say that I am an advanced user of HTML and CSS so I did skim read the parts I already know, but did learn a lot from the book. I also use HTML5 boiler plate to start with with makes it even easier.I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that needs the answers to responsive design, HTML5 and CSS3.Excellent job!