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Spark Special Responsive Web Design: Designing & Coding Websites That Adapt to

The growing number of web consuming devices are challenging our design and development processes. In this seminar we will explore how techniques like responsive web design can help us rethink existing strategies, explore new options, and evolve so we can create websites that look great everywhere.

This seminar is designed to introduce responsive web design techniques to designers and coders. There will be some examples of actual code, but many theoretical considerations. It will be useful and accessible for anyone involved in web design.

Join us as we take a high level tour of the following subjects:

The shortcomings of our current processes
Thinking flexibly and using fluid layouts
Tailoring experiences with media queries and feature detection
Utilizing grid systems
Flexible images and media
Uncovering content issues
The benefits of thinking mobile first
Layering features with progressive enhancement
Effects on workflow
Maintaining content hierarchy across environments
Testing and moving to code faster

This seminar will be taught by Mike Morici. Mike has been building experiences on the web for over ten years, spending six of those "doing good" at Third Mind in New York City. Half creative and half functional, Mike adds value from conception to completion and is devoted to keeping pace with evolving web technologies, trends, and strategies. As a fan of collaboration and growing ideas organicall