If you’re a business owner and are thinking about giving your existing website a new look or would like a website designed for your business, you need to know about an emerging trend known as responsive web design. Essentially, responsive web design is an approach to designing a website that responds to a user’s behavior based on screen size and platform. With responsive web design, when someone visits a URL, the site detects the device being used and adjusts itself accordingly for optimal viewing.

While web designers have built mobile versions of websites in the past that could be viewed on smartphones, tablets and other devices, there is a paradigm shift of sorts that major brands are now embracing. Starbucks, Grey Goose and even President Obama have websites that embrace the three tenets of responsive Web design: fluid grids, flexible images and CSS3 media inquiries to detect screen resolution.

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By Alisha Lowans