Responsive design what is it?

From Wikipedia:

Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors).
A site designed with RWD adapts the layout to the viewing environment by using fluid, proportion-based grids, flexible images, and CSS3 media queries,^[ an extension of the @media rule.

• The fluid grid concept calls for page element sizing to be in relative units like percentages, rather than absolute units like pixels or points.
• Flexible images are also sized in relative units, so as to prevent them from displaying outside their containing element.
• Media queries allow the page to use different CSS style rules based on characteristics of the device the site is being displayed on, most commonly the width of the browser.
• Server-side components (RESS) in conjunction with client-side ones such as media queries can produce faster-loading sites for access over cellular networks and also deliver richer functionality/usability avoiding some of the pitfalls of device-side-only solutions

Responsive design is all we do now or mostly do at Rossini Management Systems, Inc. Brenda finds that to do responsive design you are at least for now somewhat limited in the design look and feel at least for now. The really fancy programming we can do for a non responsive site is not yet totally available on a responsive site.  The SEO portion of the web site is fully available. I will tell you that it is very cool to see how your website can shift automatically to work fully on a cell phone.

Is this the future of web programming I say yes and it is here now so consider updating your current web site for it and if you do not have a web site make sure it is created with responsive design in mind.

Until next time

Joe Rossini