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Summary Chapter 17 ■ Putting It All Together In this chapter I covered the methodology for creating a new Drupal site, linking the methodology back to the steps that I covered throughout the rest of the book. Although every website is different, the steps outlined in the methodology work for virtually any type of website. It’s important to think through everything described in the methodology, and in fact I would suggest that you find a quiet corner and walk through the methodology before starting to build your new site. The methodology forces you to think about what you are trying to accomplish before you build it, minimizing the risk of creating your website and then finding out that you missed the boat completely. The next chapter focuses on building Drupal sites that are responsive, meaning making your site display in a form that works well on smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, and other emerging devices like watches. 191
Chapter 18 Creating a Responsive Site Just a few short years ago, smartphones and tablets didn’t exist, yet here we are today living in a world where analysts predict that web traffic from these devices will surpass that of laptops and desktops in 2014. We live in a mobile world, and as Drupal site builders, it’s important to address the growing usage of smartphones and tablets and begin to think about mobile first as we build new sites. If the majority of users visiting our sites are on smaller screens, it would be wise for us to deliver an amazing user experience regardless of the device they are using. Fortunately for us, Drupal 8 addresses many of the challenges of rendering our sites on a variety of screen widths (phones, phablets, tablets, laptops, desktops, televisions), and in this chapter we will look at leveraging Drupal 8’s responsive tools and responsive themes, as well as stepping into basic CSS theming to address responsiveness. Responsive Defined You hear all of this talk about “responsive” and “mobile friendly,” but what does it really mean for a website to be responsive? Simply stated, responsive means that your site is viewable and usable on a variety of devices with different screen widths, without having to scroll great distances, and that the content is still large enough to read on smaller devices. Responsive also means that the user experience on your site is tailored to best fit the device that the user is accessing your site on. For example, if certain elements on your site don't display well on smaller devices, you may choose not to display those elements to visitors using smaller devices, but still display them to visitors viewing your site on a laptop or desktop. Responsive may also mean leveraging a device’s capabilities, such as gestures or swiping, to navigate through your site instead of requiring more traditional point-and-click interfaces. Regardless of the definition that you choose, the fundamental concept of responsive design is to make your site usable across all devices. How Responsive Web Design Works Responsive web design works through a combination of detecting the width of the screen that the site visitor is using and leveraging CSS that defines how elements are displayed on the page based on the width of the screen. Take for example a page that has three equal-width columns that are each 33% of the width of the screen. If you view the page on a laptop with a 15-inch screen at a resolution of 1,680 pixels, each column is approximately 560 pixels wide and the site looks great (see Figure 18-1). 193
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