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The foundation of responsive web design - Dreamweaver Tutorial
From the course: Responsive Design with Dreamweaver CS6
The foundation of responsive web design
If you have been working in web design for any time now, you have probably heard the term responsive design, or maybe responsive web design. Responsive design is more than a buzz phrase at the moment. It's the answer to particularly vexing problems increasingly facing web designers. The problem is the ever-growing number of Internet capable screens of varied widths and heights, many able to swap dimensions with the flip of a wrist. Before we get into a more or less formal definition of responsive design, let me show it to you in action, practically applied. Here's the Boston Globe site, and like many newspaper websites, it's laid out in a series of columns. So if I scroll down, you can see there's one, two, three major columns, but as I start to get below here, there is now five columns going across here, back to three, back to four, it keeps moving around, so definitely a grid type layout. So watch what happens as I start to make the window smaller by dragging it in from the right…
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