40 Practical Examples of Responsive Websites

The world of technology has changed a lot over the past few years. Now we are heading towards the so called “post-PC era” — thanks to all the smartphones, tablets and netbooks. All these things have made the work of a web designer a lot tougher. Now web designers are required to make all these devices’ friendly websites. Presently, Responsive Website Design is the thing everyone is talking about. From time to time, we are seeing new and newer web designing techniques, so staying up to date with all of them is extremely crucial.

What is Responsive Website Design?

For all of those who don’t know, let me answer this question in the simplest possible words. Well, Responsive Website Design is nothing new or very different from the fluid or static designs. It simply means using fluid widths in percentages and ems. It even includes scalable images and adjustable layouts, as so to look perfect no matter from which device you are viewing it from. All these things depend on what kind or screen-size you are using whilst browsing any website. Three main elements in responsive web design are Flexible Layouts, Flexible Images and Media Queries. Now what are these things? The answer is given below:

Flexible Layouts

Flexible Layouts means that when a browser width changes,the fluid grids resize and resposition the content accordingly. One of the best free and most handy tools present out there for creating flood grids is Tiny Fluid Grid, so you should give it a try.

Flexible Images

Well, as the name suggests, this means adjustable images.Some of the ways in which you can do it are: You can resize the photos on the go, or dynamically crop the photo. By joining both techniques you allow the photo to resize automatically when it is below a specific size.

Media Queries

Media Queries are just like conditional comments. For instance, one stylesheet is present for large display while different stylesheet are available for mobile devices with different widths. Media queries let you make multiple layouts utilizing the same content. For scalability, CSS media queries are utilized to apply various page styling according to specific parameters, such as, min-width and orientation.

Responsive Website Design has become a really important part of web design. If you own a site, then you know that a large percentage of visitors browse from a mobile browser. So it is obvious that making their experience on your website comfortable and easy is a must.

So today, we have a list of 40 Amazing Examples of Responsive Website Design for you to get inspiration from. All these designs are really beautiful and awesome, and they would look great on any screen-size.

Note: All of the images are linked to their respective websites.


Glitch

Glitch


Trent Walton

Trent Walton

SimpleBits

SimpleBits


Skeleton

skeleton


The 1140px CSS Grid System

The 1140px CSS Grid System

See Sparkbox

See Sparkbox


Lanyrd

Lanyrd


Clearleft

Clearleft


The Happy Bit

The Happy Bit


Webdesign Yorkshire

Webdesign Yorkshire


Stephen Caver

Stephen Caver


Electric Pulp

Electric Pulp


Touchtech

Touchtech


ART=WORK

ART=WORK


Information Architects

Information Architects


Solo

Solo


Designing With Data

Designing With Data

Form CMS

Form CMS


Authentic Jobs

Authentic Jobs


Asbury Agile

Asbury Agile


Cognition

Cognition

CSS Grid

CSS Grid

iaWriter

iaWriter

Miekd

Miekd

Ethan Marcotte

Ethan Marcotte


Bread & Pepper

Bread & Pepper


Spigot Design

Spigot Design


More Hazards

More Hazards


Get Skeleton

Get Skeleton


Earth Hour

Earth Hour


Made by Splendid

Made by Splendid


CSS-Tricks

CSS-Tricks


Impact Dialing

Impact Dialing


Paul Adamsmith

Paul Adamsmith

Five Details

Five Details

Less Framework

Less Framework


10K An Event Apart

10K An Event Apart

Melt Media

Melt Media


Food Sense

Food Sense

51bits

51bits


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4 Comments

  1. admin says:

    @David Bentley: thanks for your appreciation

  2. TP says:

    and 90% are designers/developers sites…. pity…

  3. Great post. Thanks for taking the time to share this. We will tweet on to our friends in the twitosphere.

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    ZeroZen Design