Posts Tagged ‘Responsive Design’
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A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development
- May 18th, 2012
- 15 Comments
Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. It’s going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any information located anywhere in the world. But does responsive design translate well from the text-heavy Web design blogosphere to the cold ...
Read more...Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites
- April 19th, 2012
- 105 Comments
There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different that you should make different websites for it, or is there only one Web that we ...
Read more...Is There Ever A Justification For Responsive Text?
- February 27th, 2012
- 91 Comments
Depending on who you follow and what you read, you may have noticed the concept of “responsive text” being discussed in design circles recently. It’s not what you might imagine — resizing and altering the typography to make it easier to read on a range of devices — but rather ...
Read more...Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design
- September 26th, 2011
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Michelangelo once said, “The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” Translate this to the world of Web design and you might say, “No matter how great a designer you are, you’re only as good as your content.” While the reality of ...
Read more...Freebie: Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin Flexslider
- August 24th, 2011
- 64 Comments
When it comes to responsive design, it’s not just about fluid images or adaptive layouts. It’s also about the responsive methodology behind the entire design process. In responsive design, we are creating responsive experiences, meaning that all design components need to be able to adapt to the environment in which ...
Read more...From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS
- August 18th, 2011
- 52 Comments
HTML email has a reputation for being a particularly tough design medium. So tough, in fact, that many designers regard coding and testing even the simplest email design to be almost as bad as fixing display quirks in Internet Explorer 6, and only slightly better than a tooth extraction. So, ...
Read more...Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries
- August 10th, 2011
- 0 Comments
Media queries are the third pillar in Ethan Marcotte’s implementation of responsive design. Without media queries, fluid layouts would struggle to adapt to the array of screen sizes on the hundreds of devices out there. Fluid layouts can appear cramped and unreadable on small mobile devices and too large and ...
Read more...Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies
- July 22nd, 2011
- 58 Comments
Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It.” Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for ...
Read more...How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
- July 19th, 2010
- 55 Comments
CSS3 continues to both excite and frustrate web designers and developers. We are excited about the possibilities that CSS3 brings, and the problems it will solve, but also frustrated by the lack of support in Internet Explorer 8. This article will demonstrate a technique that uses part of CSS3 that ...
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