I know you can load in a different CSS sheet with Media Queries, but what if there is a bunch of content and dozens of divs you do not want to show at all on smaller devices. Is there a way just to load in an entirely different set of HTML for very simple mobile pages, when you have a very complex design for larger devices?
One idea will be making the page suitable for small devices, then load extra content with the help of javascript
Try to learn some of Responsible websites. Frameworks like Bootstrap already use what your looking for.
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I am making a responsive page and need to move a section of content to a different place in the DOM on mobile vs desktop screens.
My current solution is to have the content duplicated in both places but tag one with a show-on-mobile-only media query and the other with a show-on-desktop-only media query.
This is simple and works but I am wondering if there are any potential pitfalls with having some of my content repeated on the page in terms of page load speed, accessibility or SEO. Alternatively, I could try using JS to move the element, but that has its own issues.
I see that this is a similar question, however it did not fully answer my particular concerns.
I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks.
In terms of accessibility, some people have css turned off so then it would still appear twice.
Unless there's a really special reason why you need to have specfic content for different device views, it would be far easier—and much more maintainable—to employ responsive web design (RWD). If you do that, your layouts would be controlled via CSS, and JavaScript would only be needed for items such as responsively served images and mobile menus.
Another added advantage of using RWD is semantic HTML markup, and makes your content much more accessibility—and SEO—compliant. It's good to keep in mind that changing visibility on elements can wreak havoc on screen readers—which can be quite challenging for disabled users.
I'm building a website, and I found a crazy number of favicon sizes to be pertinent for most devices. Really pretty ridiculous. I any event, I understand how to make my HTML read the viewport size and redirect to other HTML docs and stylesheets as needed, but my question is, how many is needed in this world of 30+ different screen sizes?
Is Bootstrap all I need? I imagine bootstrap is mostly about percentages (height: 5vh; width: 100vw;) etc. Seems easy enough to redo my current desktop site to a tablet and iPhone size screen, but if this is anything like the favicon ordeal, then it would be easier to use something like Bootstrap.
You need ONE website, and you need to use media queries in it - depending on how picky you are, a usual way is to create them for three sizes - one set of basic rules and two sets in media queries (though these only have to contain those rules that differ from the basic rules) for the other sizes (i.e. smartphone, tablet, desktop). (favicons are a different thing).
Bootstrap can be helpful with that, but doesn't have advantages only.
I am new at html and css and when I increase my browser size my entire layout gets messed up and elements start overlapping one another. Can anyone show me a way to make my layout become responsive? Thank you in advance!
It depends on what you wanna do.
1) If you're learning HTML5 and CSS than you've got to watch towards bootstrap media queries to code fully responsive. To go further you will also need Javascript. There are also paying technologies.
2) If you just wanna make a responsive website without caring about the coding side, you should choose a CMS like Wordpress, Joomla etc... It will be faster for you and with a good responsive template, a very decent solution.
There is a nice tutorial in w3schools that uses we3.css stylesheet framework, very easy to start and see the entire problem. It uses images of different size and adpat itself to pc, tablets, smarthpones. Try it, I mean read, it is a short one, and will help you a lot, can you implement without adding that file, but changing easily yours.
For the life of me, I can't quite figure out how this template is responsive without any extensive use of media-queries.
https://02dc74ce3e31e56a52ebcc845dca58e87283aabe.googledrive.com/host/0Bxbofwq0kd4ReUt2YWVOYmt3WVU/
Anyone have any ideas?
I bought this template, and the responsiveness kinda broke while I was applying it and the author is not responding to emails.
I can't quite figure out how this looks so elegant on small screens particularly.
A webpage doesn't need to use media queries to be responsive. Responsive by definition means the elements adapt or "respond" to your device or screen size, instead of using a fixed or pre-defined width/height/arrangement regardless of the viewing device.
The link you pasted is certainly a "responsive" site, and they achieve this by allowing elements to have a fluid width (only with a max-width on the container, to make sure it doesn't keep growing if you have a very large screen, since that would look funny).
The way they do it makes your CSS code very simple and uncluttered from various viewport pixel definitions and media queries.
You can simply set max-width to prevent an element to be wider than required on large screens. Here is fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ur3futxp/
The site uses twitter bootstrap to make the site responsive. Bootstrap by default makes a site responsive using media queries if you use it grid system. Please refer the documentation http://getbootstrap.com/css/
This site is using twitter bootstrap framework which is developed to make the site responsive with all the devices without using any media queries as it already have predefined all the media queries in its framework and if you want to any more things to get responsive you must add your classes in your style.css file and make it sure that it will not conflict with twitter bootstrap predefined classes and you can do that by reviewing this site
http://getbootstrap.com
I like to use a lot of unique graphics on my pages, which often results in making different page sizes depending on available screen width/height.
Here are two examples:
http://www.uvm.edu/~areid/homesite/ - the image floats at the bottom of my screen but on a larger browser, the image floats near the middle making it look off. It looks best when the bottom of the window aligns with the bottom of the image
www.stevenlebel.com - it loads two different pages depending on what monitor size is detected.
This seems like a lot of redundant coding. My question is, how can I make sliced/Photoshop images transition well to different screen sizes. Does Photoshop allow you to make DIVS instead of tables?
Can i make each of the slices created by Photoshop grow/shrink when the browser window size changes?
If anyone has any input on creating websites like this I would be very interested to hear what they have to say.
Thanks
Katie
Using a combination of media queries with properly selected breakpoints, sprites or individual images, and even a library like foresight.js you can achieve the results you're looking for.
The media queries will allow you to set up your site for different screen groups with breakpoints set to cover most tablets, phones, etc. You could then load a different image version from a sprite or a separate image entirely. Finally, foresight.js will look at screen resolution and available bandwidth to load higher resolution images for retina browsers if so desired.
set the page size as
.page
{
width:100%
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}
Take a tour on mediaqueri.es and find out how others have solved your problem and don't forget dribbble also. I think you know about web designing for PCs, others are smart phones, tablets and TVs. Get some basic understanding of the user interfaces of apps on mobile OSes. Read the Android Design, App Design Strategies for iOS and Designing UX for apps for Windows 8. After that I think you'll have a proper design to solve your question. Then learn about css3 media queries, start coding with html5boilerplate and start from the mobile design. Good luck!