Handling Ads In Your Responsive Web Design
When setting up an ad campaign, you usually configure the ad dimensions based on the desktop version of your website. But what happens at smaller screen widths when your responsive design kicks in? If the ads are in your sidebar, they may just tag along with your sidebar. If you hide the sidebar at lower…
Risks Involved With Responsive Web Design Frameworks
Believe it or not, responsive web design is still in its early days. There aren’t any official standards on how it should work. But then again, there aren’t any official standards on how a mobile site should work. And therein lies the risk of using any responsive web design framework. It might sound like a…
Responsive Web Design Or Mobile Website: Which Is Right For You?
It’s not uncommon to see the term responsive web design used interchangeably with the term mobile website. On the surface, they make look the same. However, the two are very different. First, let’s look at responsive web design. This type of website scale fluidly as the screen size changes. The website mostly keeps it’s original…
Why Plugins Aren’t The Solution To Your Responsive Web Design
Properly implementing a responsive web design takes some rethinking about how you want to display your website content. Transformations occur as screen size gets smaller. Ultimately culminating into a single column. If you’re use to thinking in two columns (main content plus side bar) or even three as in a newspaper design, figuring out how…
Transforming Your Navigation Menu For Responsive Web Design
Most websites use a horizontal navigation menu. We’re going to focus on transforming this menu into a vertical arrangement (or stack) or responsive web design. Here is an example of a common navigation menu: Home | Products | About | Blog | Contact Transformed for responsive web design, the menu will look like this: Home…
Responsive Web Design And CSS
CSS is a core component of a responsive web design. Without CSS, you wouldn’t be able to create a responsive web design website. Particularly, media queries were introduced in CSS3. They allows you to execute code at specific screen sizes. Below is an example of a media query that will change the identifier #mydiv color…
Responsive Web Design Course
Figuring out how to create a responsive web design can be a challenge. Since most material you might comes across focuses on designing new websites, trying to modify your existing site into a responsive web design can be an even bigger challenge. When your running a business, making the most efficient use of your time…
Responsive Web Design And Time Saving Step One
Before you begin debugging your responsive web design, it’s important to make sure there aren’t any frivolous errors that might take up lots of time. These types of errors can be misleading, sending you on a wild goose chase. But the W3C Validator (http://validator.w3.org) can help reign in such errors. However, you have to be…
Why A Responsive Web Design Theme May Not Be Best For Your Existing Website
You’ve poured a lot of effort and time in getting your website to where it’s at. Custom CSS, widgets, theme modifications, maybe even custom PHP. But all of those changes are likely to get wiped out if you slap on a new theme. To say the least, it’s a perilous situation. Maybe akin to playing…
Responsive Web Design And Negative Margins
Negative margins are low hanging when it comes to debugging your responsive web design. At a smaller screen, negatives margin can cause elements to partially move off the screen. Negative margins certainly have their place but this is usually at the desktop screen level. They are often used for creating overlap. For example, you might…
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