It’s the beginning of a new year, which makes it an apt time to talk about resolutions. But I’m not really a resolutions kind of person. Instead of resolutions, I prefer goals, specifically work goals. (And by “prefer”, I mean that it’s something I’ve finally started purposefully thinking about in the past couple of years.) I often get asked about what kinds of things developers should learn, so a good portion of this newsletter will be goals you could set towards that end. You’ll also find links to my 2013 goals, and a recap of how well my 2012 resolutions, er, goals, were met.
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Jared M. Spool, a renown UI and UX expert, just posted a great article titled “Devising a Strategy for Responsive Design”. In the article, Mr. Spool covers the current issues surrounding designing web sites responsibly (and responsively) for today’s environment, devices, and destinations. Not only does Mr. Spool talk about just the technologies involved, he also explains how some of these issues have further implications on other aspects of a site, such as content management. It’s a sufficiently thorough and well-explained article that’s definitely worth your time if you want to get up to speed on the issues surrounding web design today.
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Screenqueri.es is a relatively new site, currently in beta, for testing how a Web site will look on various mobile devices. It’s an absolute snap to use: just enter the URL of your (or any) site, and Screenqueri.es will load a preview of that site, on a grid of pixels, as it would be loaded by a mobile device.
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The Treehouse Blog published a good introduction to responsive Web design a couple months back, titled Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design. If you’re not yet familiar with the concept of responsive Web design, this is an excellent introduction, providing both the how’s and the why’s.
In this edition…
- What is Larry Thinking? => An Overview of Mobile Web Development
- On the Bookshelf => Head First Mobile Web
- On the Web => Responsive Design with CSS3 Media Queries
- On the Web => Mobile Websites vs. Responsive Design
- On the Web => Bootstrap from Twitter
- On the Web => This is Responsive
- On the Blog => Introduction to Mobile Web Development Slides
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites” (4th Edition) and “Modern JavaScript”
