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Mastering Responsive Web Design

You're reading from   Mastering Responsive Web Design Push your HTML and CSS skills to the limit and build professional grade, responsive websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783550234
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ricardo Zea Ricardo Zea
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Preface 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first? 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design 8. Responsive E-mails Index

CSS frameworks


A CSS framework is a group of prebuilt features that basically help speed up frontend development for the Web. A lot of the small but important details have already been taken care of by the authors of these CSS frameworks, so those who decide to use them can focus on their tasks at hand while leaving a lot of the decisions to the CSS frameworks themselves.

Many developers and designers believe (I do too) that the true value of any CSS framework is their CSS grids, and sometimes we go to great lengths to extract the CSS grid and customize it to fit our needs.

In this book, we're going to focus on the CSS grids to master RWD rather than stripping one out from a CSS framework or UI kit (if it happens to offer one). We'll get to this shortly.

The following list describes some of the features and characteristics of CSS frameworks:

  • CSS frameworks are focused solely on web-based development, not native mobile apps.

  • CSS frameworks always offer a CSS grid.

  • Many of them also offer user interface...

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