Responsive Design (making your site work on multiple platforms)

S

seosly

yay for interwebs!
May 9, 2009
141
2
0
Mammoth Lakes, CA
I was curious on everyone's thoughts on responsive design.

Responsive Web Design (RWD) essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets 3 media queries, an extension of the @media rule[1], with fluid proportion-based grids, to adapt the layout to the viewing environment, and probably also flexible images. From: Responsive Web Design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Click to expand...

For a visual example you can open up my portfolio (http://lexalabs.com/) and re-size the width of the window. Notice how the elements shuffle around so the entire site is usable even when the screen is more narrow than the design.

Is this something you guys are using for your sites yet?

It's pretty hot in the design world... and thus you see a lot of bloggers/designers with responsive sites, but I've yet to see anyone really utilizing it on their landing pages.

With mobile browsing becoming more and more popular, it seems like you'd be a fool not to jump on the band wagon.

If you are using CSS3 media queries, what grid are you using? One you created yourself? or one made by someone else? I've tried Twitter Bootstrap in the past (Twitter Bootstrap) but have since moved on to ZURB Foundation (Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building Framework from ZURB)

Would any of you guys be interested in a service that converts websites (or designs) to responsive HTML? ... a PSD (or full site) -> RESPONSIVE HTML service of sorts?
 


For one, it's never a good idea to peddle your portfolio through posts like these.

Secondly, you should read this thread for a whole treasure trove on Responsive Designs.
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/155399-photoshop-inspiration.html

Halfway through it, the resident WF design gods dreamache & fatbat introduce the topic and then fatbat goes full monty with links and resources that are purely amazing.
 
Thanks for the link, didn't do a thorough enough search.

But peddling my portfolio? Hardly. I don't even have any work on display yet. It was simply the first example that came to mind.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom