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Adrian W. West, Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1993-5_35

35. Building Responsive Websites for Mobile Devices Part 1

Adrian W. West1 

(1)Colyton, UK

The great majority of websites designed for desktop computers can be viewed on a tablet and a smartphone; however, problems may be revealed when the site is displayed on the smaller devices.

Figure 35-1 shows a desktop website on an Android smartphone in landscape mode.

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Figure 35-1. The heading text is too big for a smart phone, so the word Embroidery drops down a line

The appearance may be unsatisfactory on a smartphone for the following reasons:

  • The ...

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