Responsive Web Design With WordPress

responsive web design with WordPress

Quotes"it may be an even bigger idea than weinitially realized" - Jeffrey Zeldman"Responsive Web Design is web design,done right." - Andy Clarke"We!re excited about this approach to webdesign. It feels …right." - Jeremy Keith

What is it?On May 25, 2010, Ethan Marcotte wrote anarticle introducing Responsive Web Design"Responsive Web Design uses ﬂuidgrids, ﬂexible images and media queriesto deliver elegant visual experiences"

Okay, what does that mean?Fluid grids expand andcontract the design to ﬁtthe browser windowFlexible images can beresized and cropped asthe window gets smalleror largerMedia queries detectscreen size at certainpoints and restructurescontent to ﬁt

Why build responsive? 10076.8 mil in U.S.own smartphones 75Up 11% in May 11 50from Feb 11 2539.8% use their 0browser -25 Google Apple Rim Microsoft Palm*source comScore Reports May 2011

More reasons to build responsive *source bradfrostweb.com

Need for Responsive DesignMore continuity inuser experienceBuild once andworks on multipledevicesBrings forth a"content ﬁrst"approach

Responsive Web DesignWith WordPressBuy the book: Responsive Web DesignEthan Marcotte - A Book Apart - ebook: $9.00

Design Approach:Challenge yourself toimagine ﬂuid layoutsThink modularlyChoose images carefullyknowing that they will needto expand and be cropped

The Grid:Most popular is the960 Grid System byNathan SmithGreat tool for designersas a guide and fordevelopers with pre-deﬁned widths

Flexible Grids 1:Using the Viewport tag enables controlling thesize of the canvas and enables / disables zooming Zooming On:<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;initial-scale=1" />Zooming Off:<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;initial-scale=1; minimum-scale=1; maximum-scale=1" />

Flexible Grids 2:Pixels are changed to percentages to expandand contract with the viewportUse the formula: Result:Target / Context = Result 566px / 960px = .589583333Example: Percentage:Design Width: 960px 58.9583333%Blog Column: 566px

Flexible Grids 3:Now we have a ﬂexible CSS:main blog column that .main .blog {can expand and ﬂoat: left;contract width: 58.9583333% }

Media Queries 1:The media query is like @media screen anda test for your browser, (min-width: 1024px) {ﬁrst, looking for the body {media type, screen and font-size: 100%;second, looking at the }minimum width. If all is }true, execute the CSSbelow it

Media Queries 2:Now using the media /* Smartphones (portraitquery you can create and landscape) */screen width speciﬁcstyles for smartphones, @media only screentablets, desktops, etc. and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device- width : 480px) { body { font-size: 50%; } }

Fluid Images 1:To create ﬂuid images and force ﬁxed widthelements to resize proportionately, we canapply a nice little style img, embed, object, video { max-width: 100%; }

Fluid Images 2:WordPress automatically adds dimensions toimages when you add them to a post, so howdo we make them ﬂuid?Use post_thumbnail:<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

Fluid Images 3:But wait, post thumbnails DO havedimensions setup in the functions ﬁle /* Add theme support for post thumbnails (featured images). */ " add_theme_support( post-thumbnails ); " set_post_thumbnail_size( 200, 200, true );

Fluid Images 4: Yes, when you upload an image WordPress has default sizes for, thumbnail, medium and large, but you can customize themadd_theme_support( post-thumbnails );set_post_thumbnail_size( 200, 200, true );add_image_size( single-post-thumbnail, 681, 225, true );

Fluid Images 5:Adding the code below will automaticallycreate the new size for you on upload/* Adding new media image size option */" if ( function_exists( add_image_size ) ) {" add_image_size( home-banner, 681, 225, true );}

Fluid Images 6:The ﬁnal code in the template<div class="featured-banner"><?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ){ the_post_thumbnail( home-banner ); } ?></div>

Navigation 1:To be responsive we haveto rethink site structureand navigation. Dropdownmenus arent efﬁcient onthe small screen.

Navigation 2:In WordPress the new menu system is great,but how do we turn off dropdowns? Usedepth=>1<?php wp_nav_menu( array( theme_location =>primary-menu, container => false, menu_id =>main-nav, depth => 1 ) ); ?>

Navigation 3:Okay, so now how do I display my sub-pages,wp_nav doesnt have a child_of parameter?Add a Walker Class to your functions ﬁle. <?php wp_nav_menu( array( walker => new Custom_Walker_Nav_Sub_Menu() ) ); ?>

Navigation 4:Now we can easilymodify the nav withthe new menu systemin WordPress and itdisplays nicely on asmall screen

Future Of ResponsiveWeb Design:Mobile ﬁrst, adaptive layouts, progressiveenhancement are all part of thisWe will be building with the content in thecenter and everything else will be peripheralTeams will have to restructure, content writerswill come in earlier and content from the clientwill be required up front

Thank you!I will have links to this slideshow and more onwww.crowdedsites.com next week

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