Responsive design is no longer just something you’ll find on the portfolio websites of the designers and developers who pioneered the idea. These days using media queries to adapt to varying screen sizes is well on its way to being a mainstream design goal.
Head over to a responsive design showcase like Media Queries and you’ll find plenty of “real world” websites — like Opera or Arizona State University — using media queries to build responsive websites.
via Build Faster Mobile Websites with ‘Adaptive Images’ | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
Verizon is now selling Intuit’s GoPayment credit card reader for free at its retail stores.
Thanks to a new partnership between Verizon Wireless and Intuit, business customers can get the mobile card reader for free after a $30 rebate and the activation of a GoPayment account. The card reader and its app can be found at all of Verizon’s retail stores and as well as its business-to-business outlets.
via Verizon offering Intuit’s GoPayment reader for free | Digital Media – CNET News.
As introduced/coined by Ethan Marcotte in both his article “Responsive Web Design” as well as his recently released book, one needs three elements to make a site responsive:
A flexible/fluid grid
Responsive images
Media queries
There are plenty of other great articles that cover motives, concepts, and techniques regarding responsive web design, so we’ll keep the focus of this article on some top tools that will help you become responsibly responsive.
via 21 top tools for responsive web design | Feature | .net magazine.
