Monday, January 27, 2014

Week 1 outside of class

1. Bought my book
2. created my blog!
3. I'm not quite sure what this youtube account is, so I'll have to ask Pannafino in class today
4. Read 'responsive_web_design.pdf' foreward, and pg.8-19

I really enjoyed this small reading assignment. It was a really good introduction to the ideas behind responsive web design. The author is also very witty and makes the read fun. I noted that the 3 components of responsive web design are a flexible grid-based layout, flexible images and media, and media queries (a module form the css3 specification). He also mentioned that a 'reset stylesheet' overrides a browser's default styles for HTML elements (I would like some clarity on what exactly a reset stylesheet is?). I was so absorbed in the reading that I actually lost track of where to stop and read a few pages beyond our assignment. I learned about em's and how to calculate them using the 'target px size/context=result'. I thought it was really interesting to learn how the type size would resize itself according to different browser specifications.

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