{"id":12015,"date":"2015-09-30T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:13:42","slug":"thoughts-on-responsive-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/thoughts-on-responsive-field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Responsive Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ll just let everyone’s notes from the fantastic Responsive Field Day<\/a> speak for themselves…<\/p>\n Jeremy Keith’s<\/a> talk really resonated with me. I heard at the conference that its inspiration was Jeremy’s event in Brighton, Responsive Day Out<\/a>. He talked about “progressive enhancement” as a mindset in which you first build your website at the simplest, most basically functional level, using the simplest technology available. Once you have that in place, then you “enhance” it to be the full experience you’ve designed.<\/p>\n People access your website in a staggering variety of conditions, devices, and internet connections. Inevitably, some will be unable to get the full experience of your website because their browser is not up to snuff, or their wifi connection drops just as they are downloading your javascript, or any number of other reasons. Using Jeremy’s approach has the major benefit that those people are guaranteed to still have a website in front of them that has the core functionality you’re trying to deliver.<\/p>\n We practice something like this at Needmore Designs, and we call it the “layer cake.” The bottom layer is the HTML, the bare skeleton of the website. Only after we have built a website in HTML, with all of its most core functionality (pages and content exist, links exist to navigate around the site, images are there, etc.) do we move on to layers like styling and interactivity. It was great to hear Jeremy validate our approach, and to be reminded that sites built like this are backwards-compatible for just about any browser you care to name.<\/p>\n Jen Simmons<\/a> got me thinking about the possibility of visual design in her talk titled Modern Web Design: Getting Out of Our Ruts<\/a><\/em>. As web designers, we often talk about design that looks as though it was \u201cmade for print.\u201d This refers to design that doesn\u2019t understand how the web works, that demands all kinds of acrobatics to look right on the desktop (and God help you on a phone).<\/p>\nMatt<\/h2>\n
Kandace<\/h2>\n