48 September 2015
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beautystorebusiness.com
ONE-SIZE FITS ALL WEBSITES:
A GOOD IDEA OR NOT?
While it's a tempting thought to opt for a
one-size-fi ts-all website, think again.
by Joe Dysart
WHILE OFTEN BALLYHOOED AS A PANACEA FOR
today's wide variety of computing device screen sizes,
"responsive" websites that claim to display well on all
devices often end up being more trouble than they're worth.
The problem? These responsive websites—or sites that
auto-sense a device's screen size and then respond by
reconfiguring text and graphics to fit that screen size—
often render on desktop PCs with overly large text and
other overblown features that are tedious to wade through.
Granted, the impetus behind responsive Web design does
make sense. Web designers using responsive design take
great pains to ensure that anything that appears on a
traditional-size website will look good on the smallest of
screens—even a smartphone.
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