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Code a Responsive Website

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Introduction

00:00 Welcome and webinar logistics

00:59 introduction to the webinar series and New Media at UMaine

04:02 Why responsive design?

Tools for responsive design

05:26 Ways to make a responsive website

Web builders versus frameworks versus CSS

09:11 Introduction to HTML

Two ways to close HTML tags

12:48 Introduction to CSS

Selectors, properties, and values

16:56 Web design as HTML + CSS

19:20 Introduction to CodePen

A fluid layout with CSS grid

20:55 Outlining the major divisions

28:06 Adjusting the row heights

Applying CSS grid

Understanding viewport units (eg, 20vh)

34:52 Adjusting the column widths

Understanding fractional units (eg, 1fr)

38:15 Shrinking the title for small screens

Changing the layout for small screens

Applying @media queries

41:50 Adjusting other text sizes for small screens

43:00 Changing the layout for small screens

46:28 Adding a grid for the menu buttons

Nesting one grid inside another

48:30 Common pitfalls

Styling the container versus items

display versus position

Being careful to complete all parts of CSS grid

51:00 Referring to grid areas by name

53:42 Participant questions and contributions

This is a recording of a free webinar by the University of Maine's New Media program. For more information, contact ude.eniam@otiloppij.

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This workshop on 6 December 2021 focused on creating a web page that looks good on desktop and mobile devices. Now that 70% of web browsing is mobile, it's critical that websites work on phone-sized screens as well as 4K monitors.

This hands-on webinar walks participants through applying a powerful open standard called CSS grid that makes it easy to build responsive web pages. The beauty of CSS grid is that it allows designers to code visually, arranging descriptive words to build complex layouts that scale gracefully between large and small screens.

Conducting the workshop is New Media professor Jon Ippolito, whose courses include how to design and build web and mobile apps.

This is part of a series of free webinars on cutting-edge technologies offered by the University of Maine's New Media program, which teaches skills like animation, digital storytelling, gaming, music, physical computing, video, and web and app development. These are not Powerpoint lectures but guided demonstrations that students can follow at school or at home on their laptops. More about these webinars.

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