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WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   WordPress Mobile Web Development: Beginner's Guide Make your WordPress website mobile-friendly and get to grips with the two hottest trends in web design—Mobile and WordPress with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515726
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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RACHEL MCCOLLIN RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Using Plugins to Make Your Site Mobile-friendly 2. Using Responsive Themes FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up Media Queries 4. Adjusting the Layout 5. Working with Text and Navigation 6. Optimizing Images and Video 7. Sending Different Content to Different Devices 8. Creating a Web App Interface 9. Adding Web App Functionality 10. Testing and Updating your Mobile Site Pop quiz—Answers

Creating a fluid layout


Responsive designs work best with a fluid layout, using percentages to define widths of elements on the page instead of pixels. This is because of the following reasons:

  • Fluid layouts will resize to smaller (and larger) screens without elements overlapping or getting lost

  • Fluid layouts work much better than fixed ones when media queries are applied to them, as we will see later

Let's look at the layout styling for the Carborelli's site to see if it's fluid.

As we shall see in a moment, the Carborelli's site currently has a fixed-width layout, like many websites at the time of writing. This means that all layout dimensions are set in pixels and don't change when the size of the browser window changes.

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