Thursday, December 8, 2011
Responsible responding to responsize web design....
So there's this up and coming thing called responsive web design in which a website will change to suite whatever media it is being viewed on. So say you're home on your 23 inch monitor and you view a webpage. It looks great! So you pull the same webpage up on your ipad only to get the same great looking page, no need to pinch and zoom. Then, the ultimate test, you pull it up on your iphone/andriod mobile device. Boom! The website looks just as good here, no pinching, zooming, it fits perfectly! How does this magic happen you ask? Responsive web design. It's all made possible by having setting in place to tell the webpage, hey, if the browser window is between X pixels and Y pixels, you display this CSS page. However, if the browser is A pixels by B pixels, display this CSS page. The only real drawback I can think of is a little more work for the web designer in making the extra CSS pages. However, the benefits of having a single webpage be viewable on any platform far out ways the extra time spent in making the 1 or 2 extra CSS pages. Because we can never predict how the website will be most viewed, having a responsive webpage can help make viewing your webpage an easy and enjoyable experience without you having to make several iterations, or going back to the drawing board to make a mobile specific webpage for yourself or you clients.
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