Responsive Web Design

What is Responsive design?
Let’s just get right into it believe it or not, that you’re reading
about responsive design! To see it in action, open
“ http://www.weareunicorn.com/ ” on a desktop browser and
slowly make the browser thinner and wider. You should see the
layout magically adjust itself to more comfortably fit the new width
of the browser, even if you make the page as skinny as the
resolution of a mobile phone. Responsive web design, a technique
that allows web designers to create flexible web page layouts that
change depending on the screen size of the site visitor, allows us
to optimize user experiences for the increasingly variable ways
people are accessing the Web.

Three key technical features are the
heart of responsive Web design:

● Media queries and media query listeners
● A flexible grid-based layout that uses relative sizing
● Flexible images and media, through dynamic resizing or
CSS

I was inspired to make these responsive web design
sketch sheets to help think through layouts for various
devices. Thought I’d share.
Responsive websites respond to their environment

Small + Medium + Large

One site for every screen.
Today I gathered some fresh examples of responsive sites to reinforce the importance
of adapting your layout to every screen. Probably you will recognize a few websites
from past lists, but they are so good that they deserve to be back here.The response of
each of the websites showcased here and I decided to show you the iPhone version of
them. Check out the examples I gathered and let us know your thoughts on the subject.
http://weareunicorn.com/
http://www.findinglifesfocus.com/

http://budgetingbasics.org/

Here are some
screenshots of what the
Think Vitamin design
looks like at various
screen resolutions:

Responsive
websites
respond to their
environment

12 Helpful Tools for Responsive Web Design
There are a lot of tools out there, and it can be difficult to sort through them
all. So for this post, we gathered some of the ones we find the most useful.

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Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheets
Adobe Edge Inspect
Foundation
RWD Calculator
Responsive Layouts, Responsively Wireframed
Adaptive Images
Bootstrap
Retina Images
SimpleGrid
The 1140px CSS Grid
resizeMyBrowser
The Responsinator

When To Use It ?
Things to Consider

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Time & Money
Browser Support
Performance
Content
Website vs. Web App

Progressive enhancement based on browser, device or feature detection

Responsive websites are those crafted to use W3C CSS3
media queries with fluid grids and commonly also fluid images,
to adapt the layout to the viewing environment.Where a web site
must support basic mobile devices that lack JavaScript, browser
detection ,and mobile device detection are two ways of
deducing if certain HTML and CSS features are supported (as a
basis for progressive enhancement)however, these methods
are not completely reliable unless used in conjunction with a
device capabilities database.

A responsive approach to web design has recently become a
standard in the global design community. The main feature
of the web is its fluidity, and it demands the same solutions
in website designs. That is the reason for extreme
popularity of responsive designs that appear here and there
at a rate of knots.
If you want to create really efficient responsive website, you
should learn more about this technology. To see the way
responsive design picked up steam and follow the main
steps of its development, it would be wise to find some
trustworthy sources.

Responsive Web Design

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