Responsive Design News

Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.

Techniques for Responsive Website Advertisements

Specboy presents some ideas around mobile advertising and how he thinks it should work in the future.

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How Responsive Design Improves User Task Completion

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Typesetting Responsive CSS3 Columns

Yesterday I answered a question on Stack Overflow and wrote up a CodePen on Responsive Design and CSS3 Columns but this example from Tom is simply brilliant!

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Off Canvas Hybrid

Vince Allen takes an idea and concept from Luke Wroblewski and puts it into practice on his site.  A great technique that uses purely CSS and no blackmagic javascript.

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Responsive Design in IE10 on Windows Phone 8

Matt has contributed to our newsletter in the past and this find of his is an absolute doosie. We love to see people solving these problems and sharing the issue with their fellow web designers.

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Conditional Lightbox

Brad looks at an infographic shown on the Mashable site that opens in a lightbox revealing the same sized image. Lame.

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5 Tips for responsive builds

Five great tips from Dave Bushell that everyone embarking on a responsive design project should read before they start.

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Chatting with Adobe about Responsive Design and BostonGlobe.com

The Boston Globe is one of the hallmark responsive design websites.  While everyone was saying “you can only do it on portfolio sites, no real website can run responsively” they stood up and showed that oh yes you bloody well can. This video from Adobe shows how Upstatement and Filament Group put together such an […]

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The top 25 responsive sites of 2012

 This year has definitely seen the sharp rise of Responsive Design.  Net Magazine has done a great job keeping us informed with all the changes and they have now given us a list of the Top 25 websites they believe showed off this exciting new(ish) technique.

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Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images

Responsive Images have been the hot topic over the past few months, this is a technique to get past the issue of cropping editorially important images.

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Responsive Design of the Future with Flexbox

Flexbox will go a long way to revolutionise the layout of web pages allowing us to stop with the inline/block and floats for our layouts.

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What's the Difference Between Fixed, Fluid, Adaptive, and Responsive Web Design?

Treehouse is an online web education tool that not only provides paid for learning but also shares a lot of tips and explanations around all things web. In this article they go through the difference between fixed, fluid, adaptive and responsive design in this informative, if not a little corny, video.

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Making Advertising Work In A Responsive World

Responsive design advertising is a tricky thing to get right, and because it’s such a massive change in the standard approach it is stopping a lot of websites that rely on advertising from making the change to responsive design.

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Mobile Apps: The Trouble With Using 'Responsive Design'

An opposing view on responsive design in this article that sides with a mobile specific method. A good read, although some of the arguments for mobile could be argued just as easily for responsive design.

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