Inspired by Ethan Marcotte’s “Responsive Web Design” book I am finalizing a fresh build of my website to be responsive. During testing I realized there should be an easier way to quickly test various resolutions. So I built a responsive web design testing app which shows any URL I provide in multiple resolutions via iframes.
I rebuilt my website to be responsive. It's a modest example of what's capable, but it's responsive all the same.
En route I decided to reduce content by probably 90%—leaving only what's vital to my story—and convert the markup to HTML5. I also worked towards performance by repositioning scripts to the bottom of the file*, condensing all of my CSS (including media queries) into a single file, utilizing CDNs, and compressing my javascript.
*The HTML5 Shim script must be loaded in the head of a document to properly function, and jQuery must be called prior to that script for IE to make use of it.
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Mark Wyner
Inspired by Ethan Marcotte’s “Responsive Web Design” book I am finalizing a fresh build of my website to be responsive. During testing I realized there should be an easier way to quickly test various resolutions. So I built a responsive web design testing app which shows any URL I provide in multiple resolutions via iframes.
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by Mark Wyner
I rebuilt my website to be responsive. It's a modest example of what's capable, but it's responsive all the same.
En route I decided to reduce content by probably 90%—leaving only what's vital to my story—and convert the markup to HTML5. I also worked towards performance by repositioning scripts to the bottom of the file*, condensing all of my CSS (including media queries) into a single file, utilizing CDNs, and compressing my javascript.
*The HTML5 Shim script must be loaded in the head of a document to properly function, and jQuery must be called prior to that script for IE to make use of it.
8 months ago