Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It\u2019s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle \u2014 and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we\u2019ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won\u2019t, of course.<\/p>\n
Responsive Web design<\/strong>\u00a0is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user\u2019s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of\u00a0CSS media queries. As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities. In other words, the website should have the technology to automatically\u00a0respond<\/em>\u00a0to the user\u2019s preferences. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.<\/p>\n But responsive Web design is\u00a0not only about adjustable screen resolutions and automatically resizable images<\/strong>, but rather about a whole new way of thinking about design. Let\u2019s talk about all of these features, plus additional ideas in the making.<\/p>\n With more devices come varying screen resolutions, definitions and orientations. New devices with new screen sizes are being developed every day, and each of these devices may be able to handle variations in size, functionality and even color. Some are in landscape, others in portrait, still others even completely square. As we know from the rising popularity of the iPhone, iPad and advanced smartphones, many new devices are able to switch from portrait to landscape at the user\u2019s whim. How is one to design for these situations?<\/p>\n A few years ago, when flexible layouts were almost a \u201cluxury\u201d for websites, the only things that were flexible in a design were the layout columns (structural elements) and the text. Images could easily break layouts, and even flexible structural elements broke a layout\u2019s form when pushed enough. Flexible designs weren\u2019t really that flexible; they could give or take a few hundred pixels, but they often couldn\u2019t adjust from a large computer screen to a netbook.<\/p>\n One major problem that needs to be solved with responsive Web design is working with images. There are a number of techniques to resize images proportionately, and many are easily done.<\/p>\n This technique, presented by the Filament Group, takes this issue into consideration and not only resizes images proportionately, but shrinks image resolution on smaller devices, so very large images don\u2019t waste space unnecessarily on small screens.\u00a0<\/p>\n For extreme size changes, we may want to change the layout altogether, either through a separate style sheet or, more efficiently, through a CSS media query. This does not have to be troublesome; most of the styles can remain the same, while specific style sheets can inherit these styles and move elements around with floats, widths, heights and so on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It\u2019s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle \u2014 and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we\u2019ll likely need to design for a number of additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,28,27,20],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing-internet-marketing","tag-best-online-marketing-company-new-delhi","tag-online-marketing-companies","tag-online-marketing-companies-india","tag-search-engine-marketing-india","tag-social-media-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webigg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Adjusting Screen Resolution<\/h4>\n
PART OF THE SOLUTION: FLEXIBLE EVERYTHING\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Flexible Images\u00a0<\/h4>\n
FILAMENT GROUP\u2019S RESPONSIVE IMAGES\u00a0<\/h4>\n
Custom Layout Structure\u00a0<\/h4>\n