Responsive web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation.
The practice consists of mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of css media queries. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.
Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop WebPages to be viewed in response to the size of the device one viewing with.
A site designed with RWD adapts the layout to the viewing environment by using fluid proportion-based girds, flexible images, and CSS3 media queries, an extension of the rule, in the following ways:-
- The fluid grid concept calls for page element sizing to be in relative units like percentages, rather than absolute units like pixels or points.
- Flexible images are also seized in relative units, so as to relatives units them from displaying outside their containing element.
- Media queries allow the page to use different CSS style rules based on characteristics of the device the site being displayed on most commonly the width of the browser.
Responsive web design has become more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for than half of internet traffic. Therefore, Google announced Mobile gadding and started to boost the ratings of sites that are mobile friendly if the search was made from a mobile device.
