Let’s Build a Responsive Website Design

Beginning responsive website design using the Less framework

Smart phones are no longer a growing commodity that you need to plan ahead for, they are in every user’s hands. Phones and tablets are many consumer’s go-to device for checking out a link on the fly. Your website will be viewed in both a phone’s browser, a tablet’s browser, and a desktop browser, and they will be viewed that way today, not tomorrow. It’s time to start building responsibly with responsive design.

There are a multitude of available plugins, themes for every CMS, and different scripts that you can now use in order to complete this action without giving much thought to the work. The problem with this is, what happens when something goes wrong? Are you familiar enough with the code to fix these problems quickly? If your client calls you wondering why their tablet site isn’t working correctly, how long will you take to get back to them? Let’s be professionals here and take ownership of what we’re putting out.

Rome was not built on a bad foundation

Let’s start with a very basic foundation for our responsive website design. Utilizing the new elements of HTML5, we’ll make a layout that is pliable and can be made responsive.

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