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media queries

WordPress Admin Bar Break Points

April 21, 2015

If you’re building a responsive site with a fixed header, you may have run into troubles with content below the header fitting correctly, depending on what screen size your viewing at here’s a quick rundown…

Responsive Web Design

April 10, 2014

We first began experimenting with responsive design techniques way back in 2011, but have yet to sit down and define what it is, and more importantly, what it means to us. So let’s do that.…

Nested retina media queries with Sass

January 15, 2013

Since switching from LESS to Sass I’ve been excited to learn how Sass makes responsive web design easier with @content blocks and @media mixins. During a recent project I was interested to know if these…

Responsive Web Design – The Book

June 7, 2011

A Book Apart released Responsive Web Design today and I picked up a copy. I’m excited to get a better understanding of the whole responsive web picture – but I’m especially interested in hearing Ethan’s…

Designing for Mobile First

June 7, 2011

I’ve recently been involved in a project with a company who had interest in my work with mobile design with media queries. Before I began we talked what tools we wanted to use to create…

Go Mobile with Responsive Design

May 6, 2011

Designing for the web has always been like catching a greased chameleon – as soon as you get a good grip everything changes and you’re looking for the elusive lizard on some new technological rock.…

Spigot featured on Mediaqueri.es

April 18, 2011

Media Queries has kindly featured spigotdesign.com in their gallery of sites that use media queries for responsive web design. It’s a great place to go for inspiring designs that use @media in their development. I’ll…