Responsive Web Design Toolkit: Hammering Websites Into Shape / Edition 1

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: Introducing 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: Making Many Out of One

Chapter 7: Get Together on GitHub

Chapter 8: Google Chrome: Browsing a Page and Reading Its Code

Chapter 9: Surviving CSS by Thriving with Sass

Chapter 10: Google Analytics: Measuring Your UX with Analytics

Chapter 11: Responsive Screen-Capture Project

Chapter 12: Looking Around the Toolbox