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Responsive web design

Responsive web design

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Most of your visitors are on a phone, and the phone is where badly built sites fall apart: text too small, buttons too close together, images that push the layout sideways. Responsive design means one site that is genuinely usable at every width, not a desktop site that technically fits.

The work

What responsive web design involves

Designed at the small size first

The phone layout is designed before the desktop one, because it forces the hard decisions early. What survives on a small screen is what actually matters, and the wide layout is then a matter of giving that content more room rather than finding things to fill it with.

Tested on real content and real devices

Breakpoints look fine with tidy placeholder text. They break with a long product name, a table of specifications or a headline in German. Testing uses your actual content on actual handsets, including older Android devices that are still a large share of traffic.

Fast, because mobile connections are not

Responsive is not only about layout. Images are served at the size the device needs, fonts load without blocking, and anything that is not needed on a phone is not sent to one. A layout that reflows perfectly but takes eight seconds has still failed.

Services

Related to responsive web design

Website design and development

Website design and development

Websites designed and built in one place, so the approved design is delivered in full, launched properly and easy for your own staff to manage.

Website redesign

Website redesign

Existing websites redesigned without losing hard-won rankings, with content, URLs and redirects planned before launch so the new site performs from day one.

CMS web design

CMS web design

Websites built on a content management system your team can use, with an admin designed for editors and training so everyday updates do not need a developer.

UI and UX design

UI and UX design

Apps, platforms and websites designed around their users: clear journeys, intuitive interfaces and developer-ready designs that make products easy to use.

Page speed optimisation

Page speed optimisation

Slow pages diagnosed and fixed at the cause, with Core Web Vitals measured before and after, so visitors stay and search rankings are not held back.

Landing page design

Landing page design

Landing pages built around one offer and one action, matched to the advert or email that sends visitors there and designed to be tested and improved.

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