At SSOFB we're firm proponents of responsive web design. We've been developing with these principles for a number of years, and are glad this is now considered good practice.
From Wikipedia...
Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors).
Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive web design (RWD) in a seminal May 2010 article in A List Apart and it has evolved greatly since then. We typically use the Bootstrap Framework to develop responsive websites.
Joomla 3 is fantastic for this, as many responsive features are built in.
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See also...
- Web Design
- Joomla Development
- Our Joomla Day UK 2013 presentation - Protostar as a base for your template, steps for coding up a design with Joomla 3
- Our Joomla Day UK 2013 presentation - Change your view, template overrides
- Joomla 3.3 released
Further reading...
- Responsive Web Design Basics - google's outline
- Responsive web design - From Wikipedia