A lot of people, myself included, talk about responsive design. Even this site uses responsive design. (Don’t believe, resize your browser’s width and see for yourself.) Responsive design is a good thing for web design – and CSS makes it possible.

However, it isn’t perfect. So read the article to see why you can’t expect responsive design to be exactly the same on every device, save development time, or even load faster. However, even with those things in consideration – you have to look to see if it is good enough for what you want it to do.

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What Responsive Design Is Not was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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