You may have noticed references to “Responsive” site design in a few of our recent portfolio posts and wondered what it was all about. Put simply, it is a design technique that allows us to reformat site content in a variety of ways for an array of different screen sizes. It means we can use a three column layout for a desktop web browser, and show that same content as a single column design for mobile users. One major advantage of this over other static mobile sites we’ve utilized in the past is that there is only one place to manage the content since it is shared between the multiple layouts. Responsive design use is trending across the web, so keep an eye out on your favorite sites. For more information, check out this article from Ars Technica…
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Congratulations to Messick & Lauer P.C. on the launch of the redesigned CUSOLaw.com site. The site builds on their previous design based on our WordPress with SiteControl platform, and adds some modern style and a new responsive mobile layout.
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Congratulations to Brewery Credit Union on the launch of their newly redesigned website. It is built on our WordPress with SiteControl platform for content management, and includes all the typical bells and whistles like site search, RSS feeds, and more! The new design also incorporates modern responsive layout using css media queries to adapt the site content to scale to three distinct sizes optimized for large screens, shorter screens, and smartphone screens. Read More »
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As web developers, we’re always trying to focus on the moving targets regarding user habits and computing environments. We celebrate victory when users upgrade to modern browsers and computer hardware capable of supporting new features and better responsiveness… That’s why we’re excited to see this new report from StatCounter Global Stats that “for the first time 1366×768 has become the most popular screen resolution worldwide, having overtaken 1024×768.”
“The data reflects a continuing trend of users moving to larger screen resolution sizes,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “The screen resolution size people are using is a critical factor for developers when it comes to web design, particularly in the case of fixed width web pages.”
Our user base is moving in the same direction. We’re 17% 1024×768, 14% 1366×768, 10% 1280×800, then mostly larger! We will continue to target the 768px vertical target in our designs as we also rely more increasingly on responsive web design techniques to adapt site content to fit various desktop and mobile devices. While this information is interesting, please don’t fall for the myth that your content shouldn’t be taller than the screen, users expect to, and do scroll!
CU*Answers Web Services offers shared website hosting. For those of us in the know, we understand what this means. But not everyone does.
Shared web hosting means we host many websites on one or more web servers connected to the Internet. Each individual website “sits” in its special place on the server, to keep it separate from other sites. This is generally the most economical option for hosting, as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance.
We keep the server secure. And we limit access to the server. But due to the nature of it being a shared resource on the public Internet, we cannot allow private data on this server.
If you have hosting needs that require private data capabilities, CU*Answers Network Services has some Virtual Private Server options.
