Thursday, January 19, 2012

Attempt at Responsive Web Design

This week, our group made an attempt at redesigning an already existing webpage into a responsive one. For this experience, we chose to redesign the "news" section of the site as it was already shown to be in two columns. Our goal was to simply make the second column move under the first column once the page was resized. Then after tons of research, we decided to use the Skeleton framework as the source was the most organized and was easy for us to read.

Once we understood the examples provided, we began experimenting. Miraculously, after inserting a new <div> tag around the "2nd column", and calling the appropriate class from the skeleton.css file, it magically appropriately moved under the "1st column" after the screen was minimized. This is because the css files recognizes the screen size and allows the change to happen. This got us thinking about how to start making the other items on the page responsive, but since a lot of it are jqueries, it is quite difficult and requires slightly more research.

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