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At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Planning Stage; The Team; Involve All the Right People; Define a Project Leader; Everyone Participates; Low-Fidelity Planning; Gaining Perspective; Digital Record; Finding Time in Your Schedule; Understand Your Calendar; Deprioritize Other Projects; Assigning Tasks; Use Everyone at Once; Do Not Use Everyone at Once; Account for Downtime; Keep a Tight Scope; Start with a Wish List; Organize; Prioritize; Break Down the Tasks; The One-Hour Test; Define Stages
Determine What Is Out of ScopeDo Not Forget Testing; Set Deadlines; Phase 1; Phase 2, Phase 3 …; Rollout Strategies; Managing Site Updates; Keep a Record as You Work Through the Project; Summary; Chapter 2: The Content Development Stage; Designing with Real Content; Focus on Accessibility; Good Accessibility Helps Everyone; What You Can Do; Accessibility and Usability; Reviewing Your Existing Content; Content Inventories and Content Audits; Doing a Content Inventory; Doing a Content Audit; Quick Content Inventories and Content Audits; Ongoing Maintenance; Avoid Duplicated Work
Phasing Content UpdatesUpdating and Simplifying Existing Content; Quick Wins; Shorter Is Not Better; Less Content May Be Better Content; Reduce Cognitive Load Without Restricting Access to Content; Show and Hide Content with an Accordion; Divide Content With Tabs; Expand Content with Read More; Have a Plan; Defining a Style; Improving Your Content Management System; Remove Inline Styles; Remove Styling Options; Add Structure to Your Content; Another Option: Doing Nothing; Summary; Chapter 3: The Design Stage; Evolution, Not Revolution; Focus on Reusability; Focus on Accessibility
Performance FirstNo More Flats; Setting the Rules; Write It; Build It; Determining Breakpoints; Decide in the Browser; Tweakpoints and Breakpoints; What to Keep in Mind; When to Use Analytics; Defining a Style Guide; Screenshots, Screenshots, and More Screenshots; Responsively Rationalize; Build Your Style Guide; Clean Up Your Style Sheets; When You Already Have a Style Guide; Style Guide or Pattern Library?; Standardize across Sites; Quick-and-Dirty UX; Sticky-Note-Sized Wireframes; Super-Speedy Prototyping; Express Testing; Key Things to Test; Grids and Type
Convert Your Grid to PercentagesExplore Responsive Grids; Reorder Content; Adjust a Strict Typographic Scale; Handling Your Images; Make an Image Inventory; Mind Those Bytes; Consider SVG; Some Useful Responsive Web Design Patterns; Navigation Patterns; Dropdown and Slidedown (Single and Multilevel); Side Drawer; Priority+; Overflow; Tables; Overflow; Table to List; Priority Columns; Getting the Most Out of Feedback and Reviews; Summary; Chapter 4: The Build Stage; Experiment on Smaller Projects; Focus on Accessibility; Focus on Performance; Work with a Performance Budget
Determine What Is Out of ScopeDo Not Forget Testing; Set Deadlines; Phase 1; Phase 2, Phase 3 …; Rollout Strategies; Managing Site Updates; Keep a Record as You Work Through the Project; Summary; Chapter 2: The Content Development Stage; Designing with Real Content; Focus on Accessibility; Good Accessibility Helps Everyone; What You Can Do; Accessibility and Usability; Reviewing Your Existing Content; Content Inventories and Content Audits; Doing a Content Inventory; Doing a Content Audit; Quick Content Inventories and Content Audits; Ongoing Maintenance; Avoid Duplicated Work
Phasing Content UpdatesUpdating and Simplifying Existing Content; Quick Wins; Shorter Is Not Better; Less Content May Be Better Content; Reduce Cognitive Load Without Restricting Access to Content; Show and Hide Content with an Accordion; Divide Content With Tabs; Expand Content with Read More; Have a Plan; Defining a Style; Improving Your Content Management System; Remove Inline Styles; Remove Styling Options; Add Structure to Your Content; Another Option: Doing Nothing; Summary; Chapter 3: The Design Stage; Evolution, Not Revolution; Focus on Reusability; Focus on Accessibility
Performance FirstNo More Flats; Setting the Rules; Write It; Build It; Determining Breakpoints; Decide in the Browser; Tweakpoints and Breakpoints; What to Keep in Mind; When to Use Analytics; Defining a Style Guide; Screenshots, Screenshots, and More Screenshots; Responsively Rationalize; Build Your Style Guide; Clean Up Your Style Sheets; When You Already Have a Style Guide; Style Guide or Pattern Library?; Standardize across Sites; Quick-and-Dirty UX; Sticky-Note-Sized Wireframes; Super-Speedy Prototyping; Express Testing; Key Things to Test; Grids and Type
Convert Your Grid to PercentagesExplore Responsive Grids; Reorder Content; Adjust a Strict Typographic Scale; Handling Your Images; Make an Image Inventory; Mind Those Bytes; Consider SVG; Some Useful Responsive Web Design Patterns; Navigation Patterns; Dropdown and Slidedown (Single and Multilevel); Side Drawer; Priority+; Overflow; Tables; Overflow; Table to List; Priority Columns; Getting the Most Out of Feedback and Reviews; Summary; Chapter 4: The Build Stage; Experiment on Smaller Projects; Focus on Accessibility; Focus on Performance; Work with a Performance Budget