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Which structure is best for beginners with responsive web design?

My goal is to run mobile-friendly websites faster and more suitable for different screen resolutions. Can anyone with experience in CSS recommend which CSS framework is best to start with:

  • Zurb Foundation
  • Less Framework 4
  • Columnal
  • Bootstrap
  • Frameless

What are the pros and cons for each of them? Feel free to suggest anything that is not indicated.

Once the site is built, can I easily add sliders, effects or jQuery animations?

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In my opinion, there is one book that explains everything, anything, and everything that you might want to know. If you are just starting out in responsive web design, I would start with this:

Responsive Web Design - Ethan Marcott

As I understand it, Ethan is known as the "guy who started the movement." I personally can confirm that the book has helped me tremendously. I'm not even sure you need to use a framework. If you first enter the code of your website with best practices and make it as flexible as possible (even if you exchange a frame with a width of 960 pixels), then resizing down from there using CSS multimedia queries is quick. I also checked Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski .

You can even buy these books as a package. They read quickly, you can read each of them during the day. These two books made me react to web design, I could not offer to check them enough!

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I read both books mentioned, which are great.

I really like the Zurb Foundation. I created several sites with it and had no problems. I found it easy to expand - it's easy to create a prototype, which will then be fully released. (I use version 2 - there is V3, but V3 refused IE7 support)

The new tool someone in the office was playing with was jetstrap.com

Allow you to visually execute flexible layouts - you can check the code and see how to do it and can be a good way to get started.

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There also:

I can't really help, because I still want to try one of these adaptive frameworks too much. I also want to know the pros and cons of each.

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+1 for the Gumby Framework. And before you work with Gumby and others, you must understand what is happening. So read the book of Ethan Marcott.

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