As I have a redesign of my website planned I’m diving into the latest solutions on webdesign. Since browsing on mobile devices will grow in popularity and there are so many screen sizes I want my site to fit on any screen, without making several versions for every possible resolution. Since this approach is recently growing in usage it has been given a name: Response Web Design.
In a recent article Ethan Marcotte1 points out that “Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design, but it also requires a different way of thinking. Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts.”
Resources on Responsive Web Design are emerging on the web. Seeing several demos online I understand why this will become the future trend in webdesign, which doesn’t only requires sites to be rebuild, but also requires a shift in the concept of sites and the way we used to build them. The content on sites will have to be fluid.
Since you might want to see what I am talking about I am share the following links with you. What do you think? Will you rethink your sites to make them responsive too?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/responsive-web-design-guidelines-tutorials/
http://demos.simplethemes.com/skeleton/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/24/freebie-responsive-jquery-slider-plugin-flexslider/
http://fitvidsjs.com/
http://letteringjs.com/
http://fittextjs.com/
And a little treat: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/08/to-five-smashing-years-and-a-free-anniversary-ebook-treat/
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