[WebPub] the new boston globe website is unbelievably beautiful

[Christopher Giles]

This is a great implementation of the principles of Responsive Web Design!

Read more on the topic here, in Ethan Marcotte's article on A List Apart:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design

I highly recommend his book, too:

http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design

I found Jake Strawn's presentation at this year's Drupal Design Camp fascinating as well:

http://developmentgeeks.com/blog/responsive-mobile-first-designing-future

Sara Cannon presented on the same subject at WordCamp Boston:

http://2011.boston.wordcamp.org/2011/07/13/theming-mobile-optimizing-your-wordpress-site-for-various-devices/
http://www.slideshare.net/saracannon/theming-mobile-optimizing-your-site-for-various-devices

And for further inspiration, here's a gallery of sites using Media Queries to implement responsive web design:

http://mediaqueri.es/


Christopher Giles
Web & Database Consultant
DCAD - Departmental Consulting and Application Development
MIT Information Services & Technology
csgiles at mit.edu
617-324-4574


On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Chris Peterson @ MIT wrote:

> http://bostonglobe.com/
> 
> try resizing the page for CSS witchery 
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