Responsive Web Design The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. Article Continues Below A building’s foundation defines its footprint, which defines its frame, which shapes the facade. Each phase of the architectural process is more immutable, more unchanging than the last. Creative decisions quite literally shape a physical space, defining the way in which people move through its confines for decades or even centuries. Working on the web, however, is a wholly different matter. But the landscape is shifting, perhaps more quickly than we might like. In recent years, I’ve been meeting with more companies that request “an iPhone website” as part of their project. A flexible foundation#section1 Let’s consider an example design. Becoming responsive#section2 responsive architecture .
Responsive Web Design: 50 Examples and Best Practices Responsive web design term is related to the concept of developing a website design in a manner that helps the lay out to get changed according to the user’s computer screen resolution. More precisely, the concept allows for an advanced 4 column layout 1292 pixels wide, on a 1025 pixel width screen, that auto-simplifies into 2 columns. Also, it suitably fixes on the smartphone and computer tablet screen. This particular designing technique we call “responsive design”. Now you can test your website using the Responsive Design Tool. Responsive web designing is an entirely different designing version than traditional web designing, and developers (especially fresher) must know about the pros and cons of responsive web designing. Pages that include data tables pose a special challenge to the responsive web designer. Images in responsive web designs are called context-aware. Designmodo Designmodo has a very clean and clear design with a perfect responsive design interface. Simon Collison
Responsive Web Design Demystified Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 30 September 2011 Categories: What exactly is responsive design, and how do you create a responsive website? This tutorial explains the concepts, and walks you through the basic steps for creating a responsive website layout. Responsive web design is a hot topic these days, especially as websites need to adapt to the growing number of mobile devices with their relatively small screens. Many designers and developers want to create new websites with responsive layouts, or modify their existing sites to incorporate responsive elements. However, the whole topic can be somewhat bewildering at first glance. In this article, you get a gentle introduction to the world of responsive web design. Ready to explore the world of responsive design? Responsive design in a nutshell The basic idea of responsive web design is that a website should "respond" to the device it's being viewed on. The www.elated.com layout is fixed-width. min-width:
10 Excellent Tools for Responsive Web Design By Jason Gross So, you’ve decided to venture into the creation of responsive web designs. Wonderful! With the browsing landscape diversifying into mobile devices, netbooks, desktops and so forth, responsive web designs allow web designers to provide different layouts for specific devices (based on screen size and browser features) giving site visitors an optimal user experience. So now, you’ve determined that it would be beneficial to create responsive web designs. What tools can help you get the job done? Tools have started to spring up to provide us with shortcuts and helpers for common responsive web design tasks. I divided the tools in this list into four categories: Responsive typographyFlexible imagesResponsive web page layoutsTesting and cross-browser support Responsive Typography First, let’s look at two tools (out of the many out there) that allow us to create beautiful, adaptive typography. 1. 2. Another jQuery plugin, FitText helps you make your headlines responsive. 3. imgSizer.js
Thoughts On Developing A Responsive Design Workflow Print design has the physical constraint of the canvas. The format is fixed. The situation is different on the web. We can’t know in advance exactly how someone will view our sites. We don’t have a fixed canvas. We need to create websites with the ability to adapt and respond. How To Build A Responsive site Believe it or not we’ve already covered all the technical details for building responsive sites over the last few weeks. Flexible grids — which are based on relative measurements, ideally elastic sites that are relative to something internal to the design. The last few weeks we’ve gone over the details of each of the above and I’ll refer you back to those posts for the details. Ethan is the person responsible for responsive web design and my posts, including this one have relied heavily on his work and writing. I can’t recommend the links above enough, particularly the last link, Ethan’s new book on responsive web design. InteractiveWall from Festo HQ on Vimeo. The Way Forward Summary
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It - Smashing Coding Advertisement Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices. Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The Concept Of Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte1 wrote an introductory article about the approach, “Responsive Web Design992,” for A List Apart. Transplant this discipline onto Web design, and we have a similar yet whole new idea. Adjusting Screen Resolution
Inspiration: Fluid & Responsive Design Responsive design all started with this article by Ethan Marcotte. Some people see it as a trend. But it is more than just a trend. It is a new design solution — it helps to resolve the design problems associated with the different resolutions and devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile). I'm going to share a list of responsive sites that I feel are nicely done. I've categorized the list into two categories: Adaptive and Fluid & Responsive. Adaptive Design The following sites are examples of adaptive design. iA Information Architects is one of my favorite minimal sites. Head London Although the Head London site is not fluid, but it did a pretty good job on the responsive layouts. Food Sense Pay attention to see how the Food Sense site responds. Fork CMS Go to the Fork CMS site, resize your browser window. London and Partners Design wise, I'm not a big fan of this site, London and Partners. Fluid & Responsive Now let's take a look at the fluid and responsive sites. Bitfoundry Ethan Marcotte
25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going into it too much, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique? Navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they all need to be optimised as well. That is were this post comes in, by highlighting 25 jQuery plugins that will help you optimise and resize those trickier web elements. Response.js Response JS is a lightweight plugin that gives you the tools for producing performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites. Response.js Responsly The Responsly plugin is a set of simple responsive widgets written using CSS3 transformations. Responsly Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens Menu to a DropdownDemo Responsive Menu Doubletake
Mobile web content adaptation techniques Introduction This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't describe how to do it, rather it instead tries to help you to pick the right approach. trying to make an existing website work passably well on mobile devices or, building a mobile experience from the ground up These two goals are quite different and tend to result in different approaches and solutions. In order to distinguish between the techniques available this article will use the terms resolution independence and content adaptation respectively. Evolution of content adaptation For the first decade or so of the mobile web there was a clear distinction between the mobile web and the desktop web, and there was really only one technique available to make content work well across multiple devices: server-side adapation. The following table lists the main techniques in use today. Responsive Design Responsive design, as orginally outlined is based on three core techniques:
Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development jQuery Mobile Build a Responsive WordPress Theme Tutorial A responsive design means a layout that responds well to different screen sizes. Such as iPad, tablets, Smart Phones and Desktop. This tutorial explains what it takes to make your existing Wordpress theme responsive in a few simple steps. What you should already know: 1. How to build a wordpress theme 2. In this tutorial we are going to make a child theme and use CSS media queries to make it work properly in multiple screen sizes. 1. 2. /* Theme Name: mynormalWPtheme Child Theme URI: Description: Child theme for the mynormalWPtheme Author: Your Name Author URI: Template: mynormalWPtheme Version:0.1.0 */ As with any WordPress theme, the information header must be at the top of the CSS file. Now we have to call our parent WordPress stylesheet styles in to the child theme. @import url(“.. To see if the child theme is working, lets change the H1 titles of the child theme to orange. replace the above code with following: 1. Save the CSS file.