Fluid layouts have the ability to resize dynamically with their container. In web design fluid layouts typically resize based on the width of the browser window, with percentage widths specified in the page styling rather than widths fixed in pixels or ems.

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How to inform a designer to use a grid for responsive CSS? [closed]

How do you share information on a grid with a designer / design process, such that it helps in further coding of CSS of a responsive interface? Do you use any tools in a mock? Do you show blueprints ...
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How to calculate the best width of a text element

I am developing a visual editor where the nodes in the editor can contain text. The size of the text can vary, and can contain any character. Since it is important for me to minimize the size of the ...
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Small form, big page

When you have a huge canvas (think: responsive design) but the content you need to display is very narrow, how do you prevent it from looking awkward? Center it, left-align, find more stuff to fill ...
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Using a column based layout for text content

Text typically falls into a single column on the majority of websites - the user reading down the page. The only scroll motion therefore is downward. I've been experimenting recently with the CSS3 ...
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A modern image gallery: fluid or elastic?

I am new to UX and IA and everything about interface and solution design. I need to do a simple image gallery based on grids. I read about responsive design and media queries. Ok, in wide screen i ...
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How to achieve this layout in a responsive design?

I am currently, working on the below layout and I am finding it difficult to maintain alignment and layout. Below is the layout I want, in blue border.
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What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design?

What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design? I am bit confused about fluid and responsive design. Fluid is the one where we give width in percentages so that design will look ...
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Decreasing the display size of posts on the home page, depending on the amount of content

I am developing a RSS news feeder. I want to keep it minimal and just to the point, that is the posts. Some bloggers that post news mainly, sometimes they just write content like "You have to look at ...