Table of Contents for
Responsive Web Design Toolkit

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Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Responsive Web Design Toolkit by Ken Tabor Published by Focal Press, 2015
  1. Cover
  2. Responsive Web Design Toolkit
  3. Responsive Web Design Toolkit
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Dedication
  8. Assembling a Toolbox of Success
  9. Chapter 1: Responsive Web Design
  10. Chapter 2: Introducing the Engineering Process
  11. Chapter 3: Localhost, the Best Host
  12. Chapter 4: Apache Web Server
  13. Chapter 5: Connecting Devices to Your Computer
  14. Chapter 6: Virtual Hosts: Making Many Out of One
  15. Chapter 7: Get Together on GitHub
  16. Chapter 8: Google Chrome: Browsing a Page and Reading Its Code
  17. Chapter 9: Surviving CSS by Thriving With Sass
  18. Chapter 10: Google Analytics: Measuring Your UX With Analytics
  19. Chapter 11: Responsive Screen-Capture Project
  20. Chapter 12: Looking Around the Toolbox
  21. Appendix
  22. Index

Assembling a Toolbox of Success

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Here you’ll find an overview of tools introduced in this book. Keep them in mind as you read along. You may recognize some of them but never took the time to check them out. Some probably made you think they’re the exclusive domain of software engineers and out of your reach. You’ll discover approachable ways of using them daily to better solve problems.

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Modern web browsers are more than just a way to read a page. All of the popular ones have powerful tools built into them. When your website doesn’t behave right, use the browser’s advanced developer tools to inspect, debug, and measure what’s wrong.

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Running a web server on your own laptop allows you to better test your website in real-world conditions. Testing this way reveals more accurate results as you build, critique, polish, and fix your site. Finish better work before it goes out the door, when changes become more expensive.

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CSS is one of the big languages of the Internet. It’s always up front and center, where your readers are. Writing it can be a disorganized chore, but we’re all stuck with it. Craft better CSS by using a tool that translates into this language.

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Building something and hoping it solves problems for your customers isn’t good enough. When you add features to your website, measure how often they’re used, ensuring your investment returns value for you and your visitors.

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Command-line tools are the staple of software engineers, and this JavaScript-based system allows you to build your own. Computers enjoy doing your boring tasks, allowing you time to work smarter by doing creative stuff best done by humans.

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Gaining confidence that your website will work on a world of handhelds is more difficult than ever. Don’t design and hope what you build will work when it goes into production. Grab phones and tablets, connect them to your laptop, and make sure your work behaves. Continually test and confirm your progress is going as expected.

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A web browser that doesn’t display anything on screen is called headless. It’s also a fantastic resource that you can experiment with. Advance your creative workflow by making interesting new tools.

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I didn’t actually include coffee with this book, but I would if I could. It just seems to make a creative life better. Bring along your favorite snacks to turbo-boost your brain while studying and reading.

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The open-source community creates vast quantities of tools. Many are put on this site because it makes sharing easy. Collaboration tools are baked in, enabling creators to use and improve each other’s work.