Responsive web design (RWD) approaches web design in an atmosphere that demands for accessibility through mobile devices. This ensures that a user can view the same web pages from your site on their mobile device in an ease-to-use manner, and view content, design and performance that tailors itself to a smaller screen.
A site designed with RWD automatically adjusts the menus, images, videos, and content to the layout viewed by the user, using fluid, proportion-based grids.
- The fluid grid concept calls for page element sizing to be in relative units like percentages, rather than absolute units like pixels.
- Flexible images are also sized to prevent them from displaying outside their containing element.
- Media queries allow the page to use different style rules based on characteristics of the device the site is being displayed on, i.e; desktop computers, laptops, iOS devices, Android devices, and tablets.
- Alternative text, image captions, and video closed captioning allows accessibility for audiences with visual and/or hearing impairments and complies with due diligence of federal law.
Sample Website Demos
Responsive web design is an aspect of user interface and has become more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of total internet traffic. Google boosts the ratings of sites that are mobile friendly if the search was made from a mobile device.