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Practical Web Design
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Practical Web Design

by Philippe Hong
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
7h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Responsive design

We talked about Responsive design very briefly in Chapter 1Evolution of Web Design; if you remember, it describes a new way of designing for the desktop, and also for the mobile interface. It is basically proposing to use the same content, but a different layout for the design on each screen.

To be more precise, a Responsive website shows content based on the browser space. If you open a Responsive website on a desktop and change the size of the browser window, it will dynamically fit the window size and arrange itself.

The concept of Responsive design was first coined by Ethan Marcotte when he wrote an introductory article about the notion of Responsive architectural design, whereby a room/space automatically adjusts ...

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