Recently, everyone seems to be using a different device, browser and screen size when browsing the web. Whether it’s large format display and multiple monitors, or tablets and smartphones, keeping track of all the possible sizes your website or blog could be viewed at is nearly impossible. In most cases, responsive web design can be the ultimate solution.
A responsive web design means that it responds properly to all devices and screen sizes. It is done by scaling down or re-organizing content on the page using some HTML and CSS techniques, in order to create the best possible user experience on your website.
Responsive design and development are fairly new, even among the web guru community. However, customers start asking for it and the good news is that there are some great tutorials, guides and responsive tools you can find online.
In this article, we’ve gathered some useful web design and development tutorials that you can use to your advantage. Check them out to see what suits you best!
Responsive Web Design: What Is It and How to Use It
Responsive web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on the screen size, platform and orientation. The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and intelligent use of CSS media queries. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use custom layout structures, fluid images and media queries.
Responsive Web Design Basics
What is a responsive design and how do you use it? Well, this tutorial will show you how. The tutorial video is almost 9 minutes long and discusses the basics of responsive design: how it came to be, the impact it has on the design of the website, and what elements are involved in producing a responsive web design. So if you’re looking to understand what it’s all about without heading straight into coding, you should definitely start with this tutorial video.
CSS Transitions and Media Queries
By following the tips and tricks found in this guide, smoothing out jerky transitions is simple, fast and easy.
Adaptive Layouts with Media Queries
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use adaptive layouts with media queries which affect browser dimensions (width, height, aspect-ratio), device dimensions (device-width, device-height and device-aspect-ratio), browser orientation, color information (color, color index, monochrome), and more.
Hiding and Revealing Portions of Images
This tutorial will show you how portions of images can be hidden or expanded.
Convert a Menu to a Drop-Down for Small Screens
Menus need to be responsive too, and this guide will show you how to do it the right way.
Elastic Text with Fittext.js
Text is the most vital part of responsive design and development, and this jQuery plugin, with its tutorials, will take care of it for you.
Guide to CSS Support in E-mail
E-mails need to responsive as well, and this tutorial will teach you which CSS properties are supported in your HTML mails.
Responsive Website Navigation
This tutorial will help you create you very own responsive website navigation. One of the most important aspects of a website is how easy it is to navigate through different parts of the site. Find out how to optimize this with CSS3 with this tutorial.
Responsive Data Tables
Just like menus, e-mails and other aspects of your site, tables are also a vital element that have to be responsive, so you’ll learn techniques for that in this tutorial.
