Responsive Web Design Toolkit: Hammering Websites Into Shape

by Ken Tabor

Overview

Responsive Web Design Toolkit: Hammering Websites into Shape focuses on the nuts and bolts of responsive web design, showing you how to better build and how to debug websites that use the responsive technique. This book guides you through the technology that programmers use to build, test, and debug responsive websites. Covering what engineers do, how localhost can help, and DIY-testing, this book shows technically-minded designers how to create digital objects that lead to shorter development times, quicker testing cycles, and more insight into users and their mobile devices, ultimately leading to better products.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138798779
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/2015
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	9.25(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ken Tabor is a veteran product engineer with years of experience developing consumer-driven products on cutting-edge platforms. He shares his enthusiasm for technology as an active blogger, and frequent speaker at conferences such as SXSW Interactive, O'Reilly OSCON, and Big Design.

Ken's shipping work includes web sites, mobile apps, and video games published by Atari, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts. His current emphasis is building modern solutions with open-source technology including JavaScript, HTML, Sass, Backbone, Ruby, and NodeJS. Areas of interest include mobile, UX, analytics, responsive design, leadership, chocolate, and coffee.

Over the past 4 years Ken has helped millions of travelers get where they need to go by being a leading part of the Sabre team building TripCase. TripCase is an award winning travel product comprised of a mobile website and hybrid apps for iOS and Android.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Responsive Web Design; Chapter 2 Introductionducing the Engineering Process; Chapter 3 Localhost, the Best Host; Chapter 4 Apache Web Server; Chapter 5 Connecting Devices to Your Computer; Chapter 6 Virtual Hosts; Chapter 7 Get Together on GitHub; Chapter 8 Google Chrome; Chapter 9 Surviving CSS by Thriving With Sass; Chapter 10 Google Analytics; Chapter 11 Responsive Screen-Capture Project; Chapter 12 Looking Around the Toolbox;