Here’s my notes from the first session of the Build Responsively Workshop put on by the wizards from Sparkbox.
Mark Wells from Antistatic Design brought us Bill’s Donuts… Amazing.
Ben Callahan kicked things off giving an overview of what Responsive Web Design is. Big take aways from his portion:
- The web is not fixed-width
- RWD is a paradigm shift
- Semantic.gs which requires Sass
Andy Rossi continued and gave us an introduction of what Responsive Web Design is:
- Fluid Foundation
- Fluid Assets
- Media Queries
If you don’t know what those things are, you can take a look at my (shameless plug) slides. (just hit the right arrow to learn more)
Andy mentioned FitVid.js but it’s way more important to understand intrinsic ratios for media.
Ben followed covered up some examples from mediaqueri.es. Ben also opened up some other ideas:
- don’t designing for specific devices
- don’t assume the context
