The Modern Web

What You’ll Learn

I’ll be up-front and start by telling you what I won’t be teaching in this book: designing to the strengths of each platform. I can’t do that because I can’t teach what I don’t know. I became a developer rather than a designer for a reason, and that’s because when I use Photoshop, the result looks as if I were using the mouse while wearing boxing gloves.

What I will teach is modern coding methods and techniques that you can use to build websites that work across multiple devices or that are tailored to the single device class you’re targeting. (The technologies themselves are all explained in Chapter 1, so I won’t go into detail here.)

As you read this book, keep in mind these two very important points:

• The pool of technologies ...