Responsive design

Responsive design is a method of using media queries in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to ensure a site is usable on various devices with different screen sizes, from very small to very large.

Full Stack Python uses responsive design to improve readability across a broad range of devices that people use to read this site.

Responsive design resources

• The Responsive Design podcast and accompanying email newsletter interview web designers who've dealt with creating responsive designs from both a blank slate and retrofitting into an existing site.

• This site is entirely on responsive design and has many articles on how to achieve readability across devices.

• Smashing Magazine's article from 2011 on responsive design - what it is and how to use it remains a definitive source for understanding why sites should be responsive.

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