Chapter 38Responsive Design for Multiple Screen Formats

Chad Udell

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If you have been following the web design community, you are likely very familiar with a term called “responsive web design,” sometimes abbreviated as RWD.

The term “responsive web design” was coined in 2010 by A List Apart blogger Ethan Marcotte, in his landmark post, “Responsive Web Design” (of course). This is both a design technique and a development tactic aimed at streamlining content production, graphic design work, and overall web development workload.

This technique seems to have caught almost everybody in the e-learning industry off-guard. While we were largely concerned ...

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