June 4, 2011 10:21 am by The Mgmt.
Put Responsive Web Design in your arsenal. Because you don’t want to cut off 20% of your audience
The younger the consumer, the more they use mobile devices to cruise the internet. iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, smart phones, and e-readers, with many more coming online every day. The known desktop screen sizes we used to design for are being crowded out by newer products that come in a myriad of sizes.
To these newer devices, your website may appear anywhere from “a little janky” to “totally jacked up”. Responsive web design addresses the problems, making sure your website looks good no matter what its being viewed on
If you said “I’m crushing your head!”, we’ll give you points for obscurity. It’s really the mobile device gesture “Zoom Out” and that’s exactly what they’ll do if your website appears badly to them.
Make it possible. Support for the media query is strong on mobile devices. IE8 not so much, surprise. The W3C specification for @media queries is here. You can also see some best practices for implementation:
