The explosion of Smart-phones and Tablets has tremendously changed the notion towards web design of user needs. The current web designing tools tackle only with sustaining the same look and feel of websites in several desktop browsers. Yet, accessing websites on Smart-phones and Tablets differ from that of desktop monitors. Advanced features including adjustable screen-size, high Pixel-resolution, optimized markup and several others have become vital in developing websites with a responsive design.
Responsive Web Design (RWD) stays one step ahead of the general web designing strategies, developing sites to offer a more favorable viewing experience of facile reading and quick navigation with an optimal resizing, panning and sliding across several devices ranges from mobile (smart) phones to desktop computer screens. The major concept of RWD is to customize the user’s requirement and device capabilities. The RWD ensures re-adjustable website’s sliding feature, screen layout, images and other UI elements over a wide range of devices. Therefore, an individual need not waste money or time in developing and managing the corresponding device’s version.
Several other sources have suggested RWD as a cost-effective alternative to the mobile application. On the whole, RWD is not only a web design tool with adjustable screen resolutions and automatically resizable images, but also requires an extremely different dimension of thinking about web design.