Remember the “pinch and spread”?…

You would pull up a website on your cell phone, and it would be a tiny version of the actual website you would see on a desktop. Then you’d have to “pinch and spread” your fingers to get it bigger, and then use your pointer finger to move around and try to find what you want?

Thus, the development of Responsive Design – a design that can handle all types of devices!

With a responsive website design, you don’t have to worry about having different websites for various devices or making sure that your site runs properly on a mobile device. Responsive Web Design was born. (Yeah, and the angels sang!)

With responsive web design, your website is built with compartments and columns that stack easily as the browser window gets smaller, like on an iPad, notebook, or cell phone. All of the content stays large so that you can easily read it without the “pinch, spread, and search” method that frustrated us for years.

Type stays large, while items such as photos and videos resize to screen width for easy viewing. This new type of responsive website is built on the concept of percentages rather than pixels and points.