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Responsive Web Design

Responsive web design (RWD) is a critical elelment of modern web development. Here you can learn more about the principles, tools, techniques, and CSS media queries used for creating responsive websites.

How to Make Any Website Responsive

How to Make Any Website Responsive

According to Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief for 2013, it is estimated that 85% of all .com and .net TLDs (top-level domains) have websites: that’s over 100 million websites [being…

Responsive Web Design with Less Code

Responsive Web Design with Less Code

The Art of Building a website is a noble but challenging one. It got even more challenging after the advent of the mobile device. I can still remember quite vividly…

Responsive Design is Still the Future of Web Design

Responsive Design is Still the Future of Web Design

Responsive web design has been an emergent practice for web designers since Ethan Marcotte’s 2011 book introducing the concept in detail. But two and a half years later, adoption of…

Optimizing Typography in Responsive Web Design

Optimizing Typography in Responsive Web Design

Each time a discussion pops up about responsive design, the common terminology and concepts that get the maximum attention include grids and images, and obviously the settings like fluid or…

Easy Responsive Web Design with the Restive jQuery Plugin

Easy Responsive Web Design with the Restive jQuery Plugin

Designing sites for smartphones and tablets sounds awesome when you are reading about it. You get all excited about the awesome possibilities of having your homepage look and feel great…

Tracking Events Responsively With The New Google Analytics

Tracking Events Responsively With The New Google Analytics

Remember last year, when mobile-specific sites were hot and everyone wanted that specialized “mobile-tuned” presence online? How quickly things change. Skip ahead 493 days and here we are, smack in…

Installing, Configuring and Building a Responsive Website with the Gumby Framework

Installing, Configuring and Building a Responsive Website with the Gumby Framework

My name is Adam Chambers, I’m a senior engineer at Digital Surgeons and a lead developer on our open source project Gumby Framework. In this tutorial I’m going to take…

Responsive Image Techniques & Resources

Responsive Image Techniques & Resources

Responsive web design has become a large topic of study over just a couple of years. Web developers are looking to keep up with trends and support the most common…

Quick Tip: Using CSS Transitions in Responsive Web Design

Quick Tip: Using CSS Transitions in Responsive Web Design

With responsive web design (RWD) when we resize the browser window our designs move haphazardly across the screen as it meets each breakpoint. Which is not a problem for the…

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

When dealing with mobile interface design you have to consider a number of factors. Not all devices are built the same, and so each visitor will have a different experience…

Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design

Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design