These are the slides from my talk "Adapting to a Responsive Design" I gave at Untangle The Web on 29th July 2013. The talk was adapted from my case study of the same name on Smashing Magazine: http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/18/adapting-to-a-responsive-design-case-study/ about cyber-duck.co.uk's responsive re-design.
29. To load the Facebook,Twitter and Google
social media buttons for a total of 19
requests takes 246.7 KB in bandwidth.
http://zurb.com/article/883/small-painful-buttons-why-social-media-bu
42. We should embrace the fact that
the web doesn’t have the same
constraints [as the printed page]
and design for this flexibility.
John Allsopp, A Dao of Web Design
http://alistapart.com/article/dao
45. The right code for the right task
Leave styling to CSS and
use JS only to change
the “state” of an element.
46. Animation as an enhancement
Using CSS3 for
animations enhances the
experience for browsers
that support it, while
older browsers still get
the functionality if not
the eye candy.
51. 3. Make URLs human
readable and permanent
where possible.
Is this human readable?
http://art.com/artgallery/default.asp?
sid=9DF4BC0580DF11D3ACB60090271E26A8
&command=freelist.