What is adaptive design?

Adaptive web design appeared relatively recently. As a concept he introduced I. Markott in 2010. This phrase means that when developing and creating a site, methods and techniques were used that allow you to view information on both large and small devices. At the same time, the user does not experience any special inconvenience.

Currently, the Internet can be accessed from a computer, laptop, netbook, iPhone, iphone, phones with a variety of screens, etc. Make your version of the site for each device quite costly. And in this case, adaptive design comes to the rescue.

The number of receptions that this direction uses includes:

- "fit" the web page for different sizes and screen resolutions ;

- accounting for a phenomenon such as a touchscreen that does not involve the use of a mouse (here, too, attention is drawn to the unwantedness of the menu on the left side, because users are predominantly right handed, which entails a periodic "grazing" of the menu when the device is in the left hand);

- the use of dynamic images that change their sizes (here before the developers there are two main problems - download speed and support for the configuration of the page by all browsers, for example, the option max width 100% in CSS does not support some versions of the Internet Explorer);

- Changing the configuration of the entire site layout when accessing it from various gadgets (specialists practicing adaptive design pay attention to the useful option CSS media queries, which allows you to register the basic style and "refine" the parameters for different screens);

- work with content, suggesting that for the main formats, such content is selected, which is easy to read without loss of informative content (for example, for large phone advertising versions it makes sense to exchange large advertising photos for links, etc.);

- Creation of one-column resources;

- Reformatting tables or presenting data in the form of diagrams / drawings ;

- formation of a drop-down menu;

- repeated testing of the results.

Adaptive design develops quickly enough (along with the growth of the number and type of devices, as well as users of the Network). Therefore, today you can find many examples of sites implemented using this technique, as well as programs that create "rubber" grids or generate finished sites, having only basic knowledge of html and CSS.

You can find out all about the design of sites by going through several stages, among which you can note the work with graphic editors, as well as the study of the foundations, which allows not only to draw a beautiful picture and fonts, but also to have an idea of how the details can be "transferred" On the screen with programming tools. This combination of skills makes it possible to avoid unnecessary "alterations" and misunderstandings on the part of those who will implement design ideas. Professional artistic education and knowledge in photography will not be superfluous. And the "aces" know foreign languages as well. Mostly on English-language resources, new interesting articles and techniques are published, including those with the labels "Adaptive Design".