Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web (Voices That Matter) 1st Edition

This is THE book to get when considering responsive design. The book is divided into clear step-by-step sections to show you what is needed along with code examples online if you want to see it in action. There is so much information packed in each chapter, I typically read each chapter at least twice. It is very clearly written with images to help solidify the concepts. In each chapter there is a two page interview with someone in the field and that person talks about their experience. These were always interesting and added to the understanding of what it's like in the "real" world. I found the side note recommendations for other books, code, and websites very helpful. They allow the book to "extend" in whatever ways you need it to.HIghly recommend.

Excellent book covering more aspects of the responsive design problem than most other books. This includes IE6, 7, and 8 compatibility; mobile-first design, managing fixed-width assets (e.g. AdSense sidebar block images), using em's over %'s in font-size because of mobile zooming considerations, selectively serving reduced sized images to mobile, JavaScript to reduce paragraph sections (on desktop) to a clickable headings (on mobile), and one navigational solution for mobile (clickable drop-down menu). It also covers several tool options for evaluating your responsive implementation and testing it online with mobile emulators.What this book doesn't cover is how JavaScript frameworks (e.g. jQuery) can be used for responsive design, or how to make a Facebook plugin responsive, but this maybe a different book about JavaScript/PHP solutions for responsive design.

I don't program websites for a living, but needed to update my own site. So much has changed since the last time I updated my site, even in the short time since I had worked on it, that I needed a book just such as this to explain to me what these changes were and why they had been done. I used this in addition to a how-to book, and got the job done. Yes, my site may look a bit homemade-ish compared to the slick templated websites, but it says what I want it to say in a design that is easy to use by readers. The code is a bit messy because W3c just tells me what's wrong, but not how to fix it. You can see it at http://halleson.com/.

I'm a 65 year old (retired) programmer with no connection to the author. I stopped buying paper IT books a long time ago. But I changed all that and bought this one for some reason. Perhaps because I was in a hurry and wanted to learn quickly. I retired before cell-phones became a big issue for websites. Now I need to know.PUNCHLINE: Most computer programming and IT books are poorly written. This one is well-written. I learned what I needed to know quickly, from a good balance between nitty-gritty details and the historical browser evolution that got us to where we are today. Responsive design is not complicated. It all falls into place neatly when how is intelligently combined with why.

Implementing Responsive Design by Tim Kadlec brings together project planning, creative design, and detailed coding techniques into a single book. It is written for mixed audience. About half the content is code related, and half covers workflow. It's a compilation of different ideas and techniques from industry leaders assembled in a logical and easy-to-digest format.I've read every book published to date related to responsive web design. This book will save you time and money with both technical implementation details, and workflow process. I highly recommend it.If you're interested in more detail I've published a detailed book review on responsivedesign.ca[...]

I buy this book while researching for responsive design. This book helps me understand better how to make a website responsive and how to approach. He covers the important steps when you want to make a responsive website, media queries, images, fonts, mobile first, performance...The book is well written and was I pleasure to read.

it is good book to read, it is a text book so, only people who knows what it is about and skilled in the web development will benefit of it.initially I order the book with few other items. Bad decision, one item out of stock can delay other things. Got in chat with customer services and helped me cancel the item that was delaying the book shipment, after that the book came within 4 days.

This book is an excellent manual on how to be a successful technical web author: espouse Apple, make use of boring anecdotes about your infant daughters, prefer feminine singular pronouns to masculine, make use of a cutesy, irreverent prose style, and don't say anything particularly meaty in the first 75-100 pages, all the while dropping esoteric names that no one will know or care about and filling up space with meaningless and not very useful bovine fertilizer such as webkit directives. I almost made it to page 80, as I recall. I'm not really sure. Then I ran across some other cracker jack web god who is an amateur baker and real ale lover, and just ran out of steam. That's about 30 minutes and $25 out of my life that are gone for good, 30 minutes that could have been spent consuming $25 worth of real ale, a far more profitable undertaking. Naturally, your results may vary: you may be absolutely ignorant and brain dead, and find Tim Kadlec's cutesy little book absolutely adorable.I gave the book 2 stars, because I felt the author meant well, and because I felt like he truly cares about the Earth and its fragile little climate. On its merit alone, however, it rates about a tenth of 1 star.