Responsive Design: What Is It & Why Is It Important?
After years of watching clients struggle with clunky, one-size-fits-all designs, we’ve learned that a great website needs to fit perfectly into any screen it meets, no matter how great the design is. Many see responsive design as a technical maze, but in this post, we’ll try to guide you through some of the challenges (and show you how Divi might make this journey surprisingly enjoyable). Let’s get started. What Is Responsive Design? When browsing websites on your phone, you might have encountered pages where you needed to pinch, zoom, and scroll sideways just to read the content. This usually happens on old websites or government-related websites. This would be a prime example of an unresponsive website. Before responsive design took the web design field by storm, around 2010, every website was built with only desktop screens in mind, and websites like those are relics of that time. If you’re on a desktop, grab the corner of your browser and drag it smaller — notice how this blo