Mobile Site

[Mornincupofhate]

Trying to scale down my CSS to a mobile aspect, but it's just not working.

 

So what's the best way of making a mobile site? Media queries? Or should I actually make a whole new site just for mobile?

[BlueX]

Use framework like bootstrap or materialize and you will get scalable website pretty easily. If you want to do scaling yourself you can use @media rules http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp ...

[Nuluvius]

9 hours ago, BlueX said:

Use framework like bootstrap or materialize and you will get scalable website pretty easily. If you want to do scaling yourself you can use @media rules http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_mediaquery.asp ...

Totally agree. Otherwise you will just waste all of your time trying to achieve more or less the exact same thing. One of the most valuable lessons to be had is: 'don't reinvent the wheel'.

[Cruorzy]

5 hours ago, Nuluvius said:

Totally agree. Otherwise you will just waste all of your time trying to achieve more or less the exact same thing. One of the most valuable lessons to be had is: 'don't reinvent the wheel'.

But what if you want to know how the wheel works, instead of making use of it you want to understand it.

Would it be better to use Media query's then?

[mathijs727]

Responsive design.

This includes media queries and other techniques like CSS3 columns.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_responsive.asp
http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/responsive-web-design/

http://www.creativebloq.com/responsive-web-design/build-basic-responsive-site-css-1132756

[Ganz]

Bootstrap and responsive design.  In you CSS use:

@media only screen and (max-width: XXXpx) {}
@media onyl screen and (min-width: XXXpx) {}

to handle additional responsive features.

[Nuluvius]

3 hours ago, Cruorzy said:

But what if you want to know how the wheel works, instead of making use of it you want to understand it.

Would it be better to use Media query's then?

You can look of course but unless it's for a very specific reason then good luck trying to write everything from the ground up each time in production - you will be soundly laughed at before loosing your job...