Some Basic Principles For Designing A Responsive Website

In today’s world of multi-screen displays such as laptops and mobile devices, responsive website design is an important technique to be used so that your site is compatible with all types of devices.

Below are some tips we’ve learned over several years of building responsive sites that we’d like to share.  These tips are intended to help you make your websites user friendly regardless of the device being used. We want to make a complicated design process much less complication and will try to keep it simpler and just concentrate on the layouts.

Everything Is Dependent On The Content

The flow

The content automatically goes to the next line vertically as the screen becomes smaller. Anything below what will fit into available space gets moved down. This process is referred to as the flow. It may sound tricky if you’re used to only designing with points and pixels. But it’s easy once you get used to it.

Relative units

For a responsive design, we need flexible units that work on all kinds of screens, because pixel density gets varied according to the canvas on each device. This is where we use the relative units like percents. That is, if you want to make something 50% wide, then it always takes half of the size of your view port.

Breakpoints

These are the predefined points which makes the layout change according to the screen size. That is, it manages to show only one column on a mobile device while you have three columns on the desktop. You can use different CSS properties for different breakpoints. It depends on the content where you want to put one. You may need to add a break point when a sentence breaks. If you properly understand what influences what, then it will be easier to tackle the situation if it gets messy.

Nested objects

Don’t make too many elements dependent on each other. It will get difficult to control. This is where wrapping elements in a container come in handy. It makes the things easily understandable and keeps it clear. When you don’t want to scale content like buttons and logos, you can use static units like pixels.

These are some of the important things which may help a designer to create a responsive web design.

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