Easiest way to make a responsive site?
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- pinkfloyd
A guy I know asked me to help out with a site that's mobile friendly. Their current site is 8 years old. I barely know css, and am more familiar with dreamweaver and some html.
What's the easiest way to build a basic site that's mobile friendly, responsive? Can I just grab some template online and fill in the content, and upload it via ftp?
- _niko0
yup, you might want to look at bootstrap
- moldero0
WP
- fadein112
If you are designing it as well, keep it simple as its your 1st attempt at responsive. Stick to blocks of content on a grid (usually 12 columns).
Don't use Bootstrap as a 1st attempt - it's bloated and you won't need half of it.
Or buy a theme for wordpress and customise - this may be the best solution if you are on a low budget.
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Fuck bootstrap!
If you are comfortable in dreamweaver have a crack at this...
- detritus0
I use this as the basis for any sites I do these days, as it ticks the basics and doesn't impose too much of itself into things...
- section_0140
Bootstrap is fine for this. Kraken.js is one I've used a few times recently that is lightweight and easy to use. It has a nice grid to use.
- Bootstrap isn't mobile friendly, ironically - that is if, like most people, all the bloat isn't chopped out first. How many 1Mb bootstrap sites have you seen?detritus
- Yeah, it's not the smallest.section_014
- pinkfloyd0
BTW, this site is for a gym here in Manhattan. I'm wondering if I can capitalize and work on some relationship with the owner where as I can try to bring in more business for some sort of incentive. Any marketing suggestions? I'm thinking email campaigns, starting a youtube channel, other social medias like instagram. There's a facebook page already. Any marketing or designers with marketing experience? Seen any good ideas? Thanks
- pinkfloyd0
WP would be the easiest one for me to use since i've installed it before. The design doesn't really have to be great honestly, just another template that's easy to use. Didn't really find any free light WP themes. I'm still a bit hessitant with the speed.
- pinkfloyd0
I need a developer partner, who's with me?!
- pinkfloyd0
Dreamweaver might be the easiest way, thanks Hayzilla
- noneck2
Don't use WP for your sites unless:
a) The client wants to update the site themselves; or
b) There's a piece of software/plugin you need that runs on WP (eg: ecommerce stores, or language translation, etc).Bootstrap is a little heavy out of the box, but purchased WP themes are waaaaay worse. They start with bootstrap, and then throw on a ton of shit on top. Terrible.
The default bootstrap CSS and JS files are 181KB, plus fonts. It's not lean and optimizes, but it's nothing to shit your pants over for a typical site. You can also do a custom build that only have the components you need. Plus there is a ton of really good documentation on using bootstrap.
There are other responsive frameworks.
- pinkfloyd0
So dreamweaver is pretty badass in creating a responsive site. It does use bootstrap, but it doesn't look heavy. There's components you can easily add to your page like slideshows, responsive menu, responsive images, etc.
- detritus0
It might be worth your while installing some sort of CSS redundancy checker in your browser - I use 'Dust-Me Selectors' on Firefox. It goes through a browsed page and highlights all the unused CSS selectors and such, so that you can delete them and re-publish. Obviously you need to be a bit careful if you've got a multipage site that has differing CSS use across pages (!)
- detritus0
It might be worth your while installing some sort of CSS redundancy checker in your browser - I use 'Dust-Me Selectors' on Firefox. It goes through a browsed page and highlights all the unused CSS selectors and such, so that you can delete them and re-publish. Obviously you need to be a bit careful if you've got a multipage site that has differing CSS use across pages (!)
- stoplying0
This thread motivated me to run through that Adobe tutorial. Thanks! I needed this.
- pinkfloyd0
So i'm loving dreamweaver again. It's easy as hell. Has anyone used it for building with php?
- Hayoth0
Adobe muse