Can the same website look well on a smart phone and on a desktop?

[Cary Gordon]

Yes! This is known as responsive design, and it is becoming very popular in
the library community.

We have built several sites using this strategy, including
http://sonomalibrary.org/ and http://www.pitcolib.org/. Theses were both
built using Drupal, and we offer a Drupal service package called
LibrarySite <https://chillco.com/services/librarysite> which can be demoed
at http://librarysite.chillco.com/.

Of course, you don't need to use Drupal (or us) to build a responsive site.
Most popular CMS systems have responsive support, and you can, with some
pain, build one using straight HTML.

We have taken much guidance from Luke W's Mobile First <
http://www.lukew.com/resources/mobile_first.asp>, and Ethan Marcotte <
http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design> at A List Apart.

Thanks,

Cary

Cary Gordon, MLS
The Cherry Hill Company

On Friday, November 28, 2014, John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie>
wrote:

>  Hi,
>
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> We are looking at design ideas for our website. We are hoping to create a
> site that will look well on small screens such as smart phones and on large
> screens such as PC monitors.
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> Can this be done without using two different style sheets? Is it possible
> to achieve this with a single design? I know that Google looks very well on
> a smart phone and on a PC monitor, but are there examples of library sites
> that have achieved this?
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> I would appreciate any advice.
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> Regards
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> John
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> John Fitzgibbon
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> Executive Librarian
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> w: www.galwaylibrary.ie
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The Cherry Hill Company
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