My New Responsive Website

I’ve finally hit the next plateau of my knowledge / love of my craft. There’s a revolution happening and I plan on riding that bandwagon to the ground. The more I read, and gaze, and envy, the more I want to learn and progress. This is my progression. A newer, cleaner, leaner design for my little hole in the wall on the interweb. Sans-clutter. I also removed all my old posts. It was time.

Responsive web design is using information from a visitors computer or device to determine the visual outcome of your website. There’s many conditions that can be set via media queries that determines this visual outcome from visitor to visitor. I preferably use resolution size. That to me is one of the easiest ways of deciding styles and placement on any given device. It’s also a good way to future proof your site for the ever changing mobile / digital market.

Responsive web design coupled with the brand new tools available via html5 and css3 is a leap in a line of infinite steps. It’s really an exciting time to be a web designer, or any type of creative person really. It’s not like the days of old, where a masterpiece is created, then eventually world renowned…long after it’s creator has perspired. Nowadays you have the instant gratification of world wide exposure. It used to be you had to visit an art gallery or a library to see or read masterful works, now you can see a genius’s work who lives in Australia while you go skydiving. Not very practical, but you get the idea.

The times, they are a-changin’, and having a responsive site is just a small way of preparing. There’s an ungodly amount of ways to view something that is on the internet these days. So many different devices, of varying sizes and resolutions. Phones keep getting bigger, tablets getting smaller, IE6 getting obsolete..er. But such is life. We as designers and developers simply need to adapt and move forward.

So here it is, my debut into the world of percentages and queries. Thanks to some help from A Book Apart for making it fun and keeping my attention long enough for me to actually learn something. As well as Jason Santa Maria for re-kindling my love affair with type. I’m a new me, for now. “Let’s get this party started!”, someone is probably saying somewhere in the world this very second. Pointless to bring up? Probably.