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Showcase of Outstanding Responsive Web Designs

11 Apr

This showcase rounds up a collection of the most inspiring and outstanding examples of responsive web design. These websites not only look great at full scale monitor resolution, but are designed to gracefully scale according to the user’s screen size. Resize you browser, view the site on a smartphone, tablet or netbook and you’ll see the same design in a range of well presented formats.

What is responsive web design?

Screen resolutions

Websites are no longer viewed only on a computer monitor. Smartphones, tablets and netbooks throw a range of resolutions and different screen sizes into the mix for designers to now worry about. The idea of catering for various resolutions isn’t anything new. Back in the days of table based designs designers either chose the fluid or static route. Today’s responsive websites take a similar approach by using fluid widths in percentages and ems, but go a step further by using scalable images and adjustable layouts depending on the browser size.
To achieve this ‘scalability’, CSS media queries are used to apply different page styling according to certain parameters, such as min-width and orientation. The first step is to create a mobile version, but you could go on to customise your design for a range of resolutions.

Showcase of responsive web designs

Ready for some examples? Here’s a roundup of 50 of the most outstanding examples of responsive web designs. Each one is displayed with a preview of both the full size website and an example of a small resolution, but to get the full experience be sure to visit the live site and play around with it yourself.

Alsacréations

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Sasquatch Festival

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Earth Hour

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Cognition

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Tileables

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Philip Meissner

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Interim

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Ribot

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Visua Design

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Laufbild Werkstatt

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Sweet Hat Club

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iamjamoy

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Andrew Revitt

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Stijlroyal

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Sleepstreet

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Pelican Fly

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eend

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Converge SE

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iwantedrock

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Joni Korpi

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Jason Weaver

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Cohenspire

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Think Vitamin

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CalebAcuity

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3200 Tigres

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Marco Barbosa

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Jeremy Madrid

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Lapse

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Ryan Merrill

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Media Queries

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Electric Pulp

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Tee Gallery

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Stephen Caver

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Happy Cog Hosting

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Splendid

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A Different Design

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This is Texido

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Edge of my Seat

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Hardboiled Web Design

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St Paul’s School

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Robot… or Not?

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Handcrafted Pixels

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re:play

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Sparkbox

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SimpleBits

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UX London

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CSS-Tricks

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