253 results for the term 'responsive' ordered by relevance
Responsive web design is the buzz word at the moment, but what does it actually mean? How do you decide if a website is responsive? Before we answer these questions, we need to step back and define the word 'responsive'.
Responsive design uses fluid grids, fluid images/media & media queries to adjust the design to suit its parent media.
Responsive Design is seen as the superior successor to Adaptive Design with no downside. I beg to differ.
Responsive Web Design(RWD) has been well adopted throughout many projects; but surprisingly Guy’s talk revealed a little known fact that only 11% in Top 100 websites are RWD. Which means roughly only 1 in 8 websites are responsive.
The decision should be made at the start of the project within the team which includes UX / Design / Front-end / Back-end development. The decision upfront will also allow for better design / coding methods.
To put it simply a responsive design is one that scales down, reshuffling content, to fit perfectly in any browser window.
From mobile browsers to Netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Increasingly web designers have to think beyond the limitations of the desktop and deliver sites that are able to adapt gracefully to whatever media is being used to view it.
Adaptive and responsive design have emerged from the desire to serve all the content of a single site from a single domain.
Over 35% of emails are opened through a mobile device so why are companies only sending out one email?
The bootstrap 3 library now makes coding responsive design for today's different screen sizes a breeze.
Rogelio Choy, manager of eBay's Live Auctions business discussed Skype on his blog. Rogelio is responsible for marketing, business development, product vision, and the day-to-day operations of eBay.
When developing mobile websites, responsive or adaptive, there are some important factors to consider outside of the IA involved with UI and design.
Using primarily HTML and CSS we can "fluidly" adjust the width of elements and even hide elements to fit the available space.
Project responsibility and apportioning it, is key.
Designing and developing a website to be compatible with several different browsers has long been a headache for designers and web developers. Now it's not just a variety of browsers that need to be considered; smart phones, iPads and a variety of screen resolutions must also be taken into account. In fact, the majority of clients now ask for a mobile version of their website to be developed.
The entire web development industry is be-smitten Responsive design. And it is indeed a clever technology and with its place. But we are in a world where users and conversion come before technology, Adaptive design is your unlikely, un-cool answer. (Though soon enough you will think it is cool...)
A short piece of JavaScript to help those colorbox pop-ups stay responsive.
Responsive has become a must-do among the industry, companies love to see their site resized to fit on any device. But that doesn't always mean you've made a good mobile site.
John Allsopp from Web Directions drops in to have a chat...
People are resizing browser windows. Which we knew and know but still... wow, they're resizing browser windows.
Firefox is 10 years old! To celebrate, Mozilla have released a new Developer Edition of their famous browser.
When we scope a website, we need to define what browsers we will optimise the website for versus those browsers that the website will operate satisfactorily. It really comes down to budgets.
Captcha was always a good idea on paper, but in practice it means annoying legitimate users.
It doesn't mean we have to obey the rule all the time. It really depend on what kind of site and which page we design with. Still not sure? Responsive the fold.
From looking at the already created CSS and JavaScript from a project I am now co-developing I have learned the basic techniques for creating a responsive template for tablet and mobile devices – and it really isn’t that hard.
By now you’re probably familiar with the latest Internet Explorer security issues. If not you can review our previous post on the topic. Over the past few years there have been an increasing number of vulnerabilities in Internet browsers. When these issues occur the blame is always placed with the browser itself. However, there is another party that shares some responsibility.
For such a seemingly innocent UI element, those three line icons you see in the corner of many responsive websites and apps have generated a lot of controversy.
Easily display MVC model state errors from an AJAX call
When we're crazy on responsive design or talking mobile first, but infact there’s more hi-definition big monitors around us.
When creating prototypes we also create a Functional Specification which is an equivalent of an offline version of the prototype with some additional information we can’t include in the prototype.
As a developer one of my responsibilities while working on a site is to ensure that everything looks as it should on many different web browsers. When I say different browsers that includes different versions of browsers. Currently, there are 3 versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that dominate browser usage worldwide. Those are IE 6, 7 and 8. And unfortunately, they like to show the same web sites slightly, and on occasion drastically, different.
Charities such as the National Breast Cancer Foundation in Australia report excellent responses to and beneficial results from their Web site.
The viewport tag is a very important part of responsive web design today and it's arguably equally as important to ensure that your legacy websites are retrofitted with a viewport tag to improve the user experience on mobile devices. Having the correct viewport settings on a fixed site will vastly improve the usability. Here is a quick explanation of the most common viewport properties.
An up to date content management system is a well performing content managed website. A good example of why it's good practice to keep on top of your updates.
To keep it simple let’s define ‘responsive’ as being a single website that displays content differently, dependant on the device that is being used to view it.
A quick look at how automated support responses can be annoying, even by the big boys.
I had the requirement to log every web service request and response in a recent project. WCF turned out to be an easy and useful debugging tool to achieve it.
It is essential to make sure that you handle any complaints or queries through your social media correctly to not only win back your customer, but other users in the process.
By default bootstrap can achieve this by adjusting column and gutter widths