Speed up your next responsive web design project

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On October 9th, Scott B. Reynolds presented "Speed up your next responsive web design project" to Harvard's ABCD-WWW group. Description: Rapid growth of smart phones and tablets is causing web professionals to change the way they design and build websites. Many are using Responsive Web Design to offer an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. Responsive Web Design often adds time and complexity to a project, so any tool that helps improve the workflow has value. Bio: Scott B Reynolds is going to show off some products that make a responsive project easier to manage. Scott is an Adobe Community Professional, an Adobe Certified Expert, and the manager of the Hartford Adobe User Group. He is also the founder of Thrise, a digital media/marketing company located in West Hartford Connecticut.

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Scott B Reynolds | Thrise, LLC | Hartford Adobe

@scottbreynolds@thrise

Speed Up Your Next Responsive Web Design

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Responsive Web DesignThe Future of the Web?

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Static Web Design

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Mobile Web Design

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Responsive Web DesignThe Future of the Web?

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Responsive Web Design

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by Ethan Marcotte

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Responsive Web Design960px

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320px Static WebsiteMy Static Website looks good on a modern desktop computer as long as the browser is maximized. If my static website is being rendered on a small device there may be problems.

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My Static Website looks good on a modern desktop computer as long as the browser is maximized. If my static website is being rendered on a small device there may be problems.

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Responsive Web Design

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My Static Website looks good on a modern desktop computer as long as the browser is maximized. If my static website is being rendered on a small device there may be problems.

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Responsive Web Designthree core ingredients

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• A flexible, grid-based layout• Flexible images and media• Media queries (CSS3)

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A FIXED, grid-based layout

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A FLEXIBLE, grid-based layout

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“...responsive design is about serving one HTML document to countless browsers and devices, using flexible layouts and media queries to ensure that design is as portable and accessible as possible.”

- Ethan Marcotte

Responsive Web Design

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Now What?

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