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 Design with CSS3 Media Queries Screen resolution nowsaday ranges from 320px (iPhone) to 2560px (large monitor) or even higher. Users no longer just browse the web with desktop computers. Users now use mobile phones, small notebooks, tablet devices such as iPad or Playbook to access the web. So the traditional fixed width design doesn't work any more. View Demo Responsive Design Download Demo ZIP See It in Action First Before you start, check the final demo to see how it looks like. More Examples If you want to see more examples, check out the following WordPress themes that I designed with media queries: Tisa, Elemin, Suco, iTheme2, Funki, Minblr, and Wumblr. Overview The page's container has a width of 980px which is optimized for any resolution wider than 1024px. HTML Code I'm not going to go through the details of the HTML code. HTML5.js Note that I use HTML5 markup in my demo. Reset HTML5 Elements to Block The following CSS will reset the HTML5 elements (article, aside, figure, header, footer, etc.) to block element.
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS CSS, by its very nature, is used to lay elements out on the page. However, there is a distinction between layouts dictating the major and minor components of a page. The minor components—such as a callout, or login form, or a navigation item—sit within the scope of major components such as a header or footer. Layout styles can also be divided into major and minor styles based on reuse. Layout declarations Some sites may have a need for a more generalized layout framework (for example, 960.gs). Generally, a Layout style only has a single selector: a single ID or class name. Use of a higher level Layout style affecting other Layout styles. In the Layout example, the .l-flipped class is applied on a higher level element such as the body element and allows the article and sidebar content to be swapped, moving the sidebar from the right to the left and vice versa for the article. Using two Layout styles together to switch from fluid to fixed layout. Using ID selectors Layout Examples
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 .
45+ Free Lessons In Graphic Design Theory Sep 15 2011 Considering how many designers are self-taught, either in whole or in part, the importance of a solid foundation in graphic design theory is often overlooked. New designers often want to jump right into creating websites, rather than learning the basics of why some designs work and some don’t. But they’re putting themselves at a disadvantage to designers who do have formal training or have taken the time to learn the principles behind good design. Below are more than 45 recent lessons in graphic design theory. General Design Theory The Lost Principles of Design Covers a number of basic graphic design principles, including balance, contrast, emphasis and subordination, directional forces, proportion, scale, repetition and rhythm, and unity, all with illustrations. Principles of Good Design: Balance Discusses how important balance is to creating an effective design. Web Design Tips: The Use of Balance This covers how to create balance in your website designs. Typography (al)(rb)
8 Popular online apps to test the mobile version of your site The mobile revolution has inspired major and minor websites alike to have a mobile version. Mobile versions can be created using themes, extensions, and other modifications. While developing mobile version, you may want to test it on two, three, or even five different mobile handsets. After development, you are not aware how it will appear in each mobile present on this Earth as you have to buy each of them to test it manually. Let us make this work simple for you by collecting some tools in this article to test the mobile version of your website. You can test your mobile website on these tools, analyze it for the mistakes/errors, and then optimize it according to the recommendations. 1. W3C tops the list every time you come to the field of website testing. 2. Ready.Mobi is a service of dotMobi and an extension of W3C MobileOk Checker Service. 3. Google also has tools for testing your website for mobile. 4. iPad Peek Currently, Apple iPad is the highest selling tablet. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The ultimate responsive web design roundup Responsive design is the new darling of the web design world. It seems that not a week goes by that there aren’t new resources for doing it, opinions about how to do it or even whether to do it at all, and new sites that make beautiful use of it. It can quickly get overwhelming trying to keep up with it all. Here we’ve compiled a list of more than seventy resources for creating responsive designs. Included are articles discussing responsive design and related theories, frameworks and boilerplates for responsive layouts, tools for testing your responsive designs, techniques for resizable images, and a whole lot more. Then, to top it all off, we’ve collected a hundred of the best responsive designs out there right now to inspire you and give you some real-world ideas. Articles and Publications Below are a number of high-quality articles talking about responsive design and the techniques that go into it. Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design Book Big vs. Responsive by Default Context FitText
The most popular fonts used by designers There are usually two camps among designers when it comes to typeface choices. One group has a handful of favorite typefaces they adapt to every design they create, believing that these handful of typefaces can be suitable for every situation. The other camp believes in using a huge variety of typefaces, picking and choosing each one based specifically on the project at hand. Regardless of which camp you fit into, the typefaces below should interest you. They have proven popular among designers the world over, and are used in designs for everything from multi-national corporations to individual books or journals. Have we missed one of your old time favorites? Akzidenz Grotesk Akzidenz Grotesk was the first widely-adopted sans serif typeface, and an influencer of many later neo-grotesque typefaces, including Helvetica and Univers. Akzidenz Grotesk was created in 1898 by H. Strengths Akzidenz-Grotesk is a versatile typeface, suitable for both headlines and body copy. Avenir Baskerville Bembo
Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks Eventually, we’ll all stop talking about responsive web design – not because it will go away, but because it will become what’s expected. Flashback ten years ago and we were all talking about CSS and tableless design, but today there’s no need to mention it. It’s simply the way modern websites are built, although sadly, I’m sure there’s a few out there still using tables. Nevertheless, the concept of responsive web design is still relatively new. Mobile Boilerplate Mobile Boilerplate is your trusted template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. Skeleton Skeleton is a small collection of CSS & JS files that can help you rapidly develop sites that look beautiful at any size, be it a 17″ laptop screen or an iPhone. Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries These hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and attributes I’m interesting in making responsive designs for right now. tiny fluid grid FluidGrids Less Framework CSS Grid inuit.css flurid
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
25 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design Here at WDL we love typography and we are constantly showing our readers good typo usage, from print to logos, from web to random typographic works, we really feel the need to keep the juices flowing in that area, and we could not forget to mention all the free fonts we like to show you! So today we decided to show our love for typography gathering some examples of big typography in web design. From bold and colorful letters to delicate handwriting ones, you will find a lot of inspiring examples of how to get attention using typography, enjoy. Riser Karb Bellstrike The Lost Thing Joel Andrew Glovier Soulwire cookiesound McFarlane Change Management Skewed Icons Rice Bowls Appmiral Barcamp Omaha Leaderbe Consulting Andy Hillier Ana Majik River & Robots Moreno Contrive Digital Francesca Nini Daniel Martin Ruth Buses at the Brewery Corkcicle Smokey Bones Mr Henry Source: The Best DesignsunmatchedstyleAwwwards About the Author Related Posts 244 shares 11 Inspiring Examples of Textures and Patterns in Web Design Read More
Techniques in responsive web design We’ve talked a lot about responsive design here on Webdesigner Depot, and shared a lot of valuable resources. Today we’re sharing another valuable resource: at the end of this article are details for getting a discount on Chris Converse’s responsive design course on MightyDeals. CSS3 media queries allow us to dynamically alter the design and layout of a web page in order to deliver an optimal user experience from a single set of HTML and CSS markup. The techniques in this article explain how we can leverage this powerful capability of CSS to also change imagery, alter the navigation on hand-held devices, and set up default CSS for compatibility older browsers. Creating different images When altering your design for different devices, consider creating multiple versions of your graphics. The example below shows the different sizing, and cropping choices, in addition to the varying amounts of compression that are applied to each set of images. Assign images to HTML elements .
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
Designing Effective Websites - 80 Articles Summer 2011 This post presents a collection of articles on how to develop an effective website which were retweeted at @htmlcut this summer. The roundup can be especially useful if you are planning to start a new web development project and need to refresh your knowledge, “shake up” creativity or find new ideas. In fact, there are a lot of resources about different aspects of effective web design on the Internet. However, the web industry is changing very fast, and new trends appear here almost every day. Some of the articles listed below describe exactly such new tendencies. Please note: Most of the articles include a list of additional resources – don’t forget to check them out too. Hope you’ll find this compilation interesting for you. Web Design Principles and Basics 2). 3). 4). 5). 6). 7). Website Structure 1). 2). 3). Website Layout 1). 2). Psychology and Web Design 2). Colors in Web Design 1). 2). 3). Usability and User Experience 1). 3). Content and Copywriting 1). 2). 3). 4). Typography 1). 3). 4).