© Inayaili de León 2016

Inayaili de León, Moving to Responsive Web Design, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1987-4_2

2. The Content Development Stage

Inayaili de León

(1)London, UK

We all know that content is the life and soul of the Internet. It is the reason people visit our sites, and the reason they come back over and over again (or at least we hope they do).

In the process of making sites responsive, we tend to simplify the design and remove unnecessary decorative elements, and our layouts tend to become cleaner. Because of this, the content increases in importance as it is propelled to the forefront.

Eileen Webb’s words clearly capture the way in which content becomes even more important than it was before when we move toward responsive web design:

When ...

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