Responsive Website Design Methods
When creating responsive website design, you will discover many techniques for creating website content that displays on all devices. These are some ideas for responsive website design.
Elastic Videos using CSS
For embedded videos that us the iframe or object tag, using the common HTML5 max-width:100% and height:auto solution does not work. A way of getting around this problem for ensuring that your videos are elastic and respond to your screen size is by placing the embed code in a div container and specifying the child element within the div to a 100% height, 100% width and absolute position.
Full Resolution Resizeable Images
To ensure that your images get resized with the text on your webpage, you can assign the image to a class which will set widths to an em value. Em sizes are scalable sizes ensuring that fonts remain a readable size and can be applied to images in the same way.
Optimising Your Email for Mobile Devices With the Media Query
Any business or organisation that sends out regular emails, needs to pay attention to the development of responsive email technology to ensure the highest level of response from recipients. The growing percentage of people that open emails on mobile devices means that you could be letting more than half of your emails go unread.
Using media queries, you can produce email content which does not become unusable when viewed on mobile or tablet devices. Designing email for mobile devices has become an essential part of website design.
Responsive Design for Email, the Largest Mobile Audience
Designing emails for mobile devices ensures that you do not fall short of targeting the ever growing market that view the majority of web content on mobile devices. Considerations that need to be addressed when designing for mobile devices include margins, font size and usually a vertical layout provides the best user experience.
Media Queries in HTML Emails
Media queries offer a way of detecting the resolution and/or size of the device using boolean statements. A boolean statement returs a true or false reply to a query about the properties of the device being used to view the content.
Guide to CSS Support for Email
CSS support varies between each email provider and it can be tricky to find out and learn the variety of CSS options available when using each particular client. This link provides an easy to read guide to the CSS features available on each email client.
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