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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,228 PointsMobile Web Design
I'm so happy to have joined Treehouse. I just wanted to get a quick discussion going on about mobile design and the best treehouse tracks tracks for design for mobiles. It's currently one of my biggest headaches. I'm far too desktop oriented at the moment. It's been a big lightbulb moment to even think about designing for mobile first then working way up to desktop layouts as the HTML track suggests.
I'm working on a responsive web design project at the moment. It's a painstaking process trying to fit my design to all screens. A lot of that is down to my design which is currently, despite my best efforts, not really up to standard.
Which are the best tracks, other than the HTML track that are best for priming me up for the best mobile web design practices?
Thanks. :-)
2 Answers
Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherHi Jonathan,
There are a few courses and videos that might help:
The Building Responsive Website Project is all about building responsive: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-responsive-website
The CSS Layout Techniques Deep Dive http://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-layout-techniques has some information regarding mobile. In particular there's a "Mobile First Layout" video: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-layout-techniques/float-layout/mobile-first-layout
The Frameworks Basics course http://teamtreehouse.com/library/framework-basics Covers Twitter Bootstrap and Foundation which are both CSS frameworks that have responsive design and mobile first design strategies. Your current design might not work with either of these, but you might want to consider these for the future because they make responsive design a lot easier.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,228 PointsHello there Dave, thanks for your reply,
I see the list of tracks to get me started on mobile web and thanks for that, I can't wait to get started on them.