Have you ever visited a website on your mobile device and the page is not laid out right or the text is too small to read? That is because the website was not responsive.

A responsive web design can make or break your business. It provides trust, authority and brand awareness. In this article, we are going to talk about what responsive design is, why you need it and how it works.

What Is Responsive Design?

Responsive web design is an approach to creating a website that allows it to work on any device; whether it’s a mobile phone, tablet, TV or a laptop

This is a follow up blog to an Introduction to Responsive Web Design: The Future of Websites which was published on the Huffington Post by our CEO Ian Mills.

In this article, we described responsive web design as a culmination of different techniques, the two main techniques which make up responsive web design are Fluid Layouts and Media Queries.

In this blog, we will aim to explain how these two elements interact to form what is now referred to as responsive web design.