We are living in an era where technology has been dominating everything. However, this domination is having a positive impact upon us. As you must have noticed, a lot of businesses have a presence online. This is so, because the ease of searching and doing transactions only are not proving to be time-consuming. Another new trend that is coming up is having a mobile edition of their Website. Nowadays, Blackberry, Samsung, iPad, or iPhone are taking over the mobile industry. To cope up with all these mobile phones it is almost indispensable to have one design for the iPhone or one for the Blackberry. In addition to that, all the resolutions, in terms of the screen have to be well-matched. In the next few years, we shall have to start designing numerous other innovations. Will this ever stop? No never.

When we talk about Web designing or development, it has been seen that we are not able to keep up with this pace. Never-ending devices and resolutions keep on coming up. It is near to impossible to create a mobile version of a Website for the upcoming mobile phones where this has to match with the resolution. Do we really need to focus on only one kind of device? Note that individuals’ mobile phones vary from countries to countries. If we really focus on only one kind, is it worth losing the visitors of the other ones? Do we have an alternative for this?

The answer to all this is responsive websites. A lot of us are probably unaware of it. A responsive wed design is basically an approach putting forward that development and design should act in response to the user’s environment as well as behavior. All this is based on the size of the screen, the orientation and also the platform. The use of this is consisted of a combination if grids and layout (flexible), a good use of CSS media queries and also images. Hence, as a visitor shifts from his computer to his iPad, the Website will robotically move to the right resolution, size, image and scripting capability. What is meant to say here is that the Website should automatically switch to the user’s preference. In a way, this eliminates the building-up of any new design or development for the any new device coming up.



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