Responsive Web Design

“We should embrace the fact that the web  doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first,  we must “accept the ebb and flow of things.”
John Allsopp, “A Dao of Web Design”

Smartphones and tablets of all kinds are in high demand today and web audience can’t stop buzzing about the necessity of the new technologies applicable for various devices. iPads, iPhones, Android mobile devices, laptops and netbooks have captivated the web audience, and it’s no longer enough to build websites for standard computer screens only. New technologies require brand new approaches, and the most promising trend is represented by the so-called “responsive web design”. What does it mean? In simple phrase, it is aimed at building a website that responds in compliance with the medium you use to view it.

Some firmly believe that well-organized HTML and flexible layout are supposed to  deplete the concept of responsive web design, but this definition is hardly  comprehensive. In fact responsive web design implements all the modern web  technologies to make the web pages flexible to the max. And flexible layouts  become rather imperative than alternative requirements today. The reason is  clear: 1024 pixels is no longer a universal resolution width, since people are  viewing websites on various kinds of screen sizes. We all remember that boom  when Apple sold 3 million iPads in just 80 days and we still can clearly see  this enormous demand for nonstandard screens and flexible designs. The recent  iPhone4 models, for instance, are released with a super high-resolution screen  and require the super high quality of a visual representation as well.

According to the web design studios and free-lance webmasters, many companies  order “an iPhone website” as part of their projects. The demand for the mobile  version keeps growing and includes more and more requirements regarding the page  resolution, the code flexibility, and the like. So why not to contemplate the  features that could make the web page flexible for various screens and devices?  Implementing responsive design features you finally get a chance to create  adaptable layouts, comfortable for all your readers.

According to Ethan  Marcotte, the author of the responsive web design concept, the images should  be flexible and the site itself should use fluid grids and media queries  allowing to get different views in different contexts. These are the basic  components of the today’s responsive design, and we are sure that both newbies  and experienced web designers would find it useful to adopt this approach into  the projects they make. Below you may enjoy some details and guidelines about  implementing media queries, fluid grids and flexible images into your website  structure.

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