Making content flexible with responsive design

Technical communicators strive to provide high-quality content to users when and where they need it. With responsive design it is now possible to create content that automatically adjusts to the device.

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Responsive web design is a transformative technology for technical communicators. With responsive design content adapts to the device – be it a desktop, mobile phone, tablet, or other. It gives technical writers the means to create content once and deliver it anywhere, to thousands of devices: new ones, older ones – even ones that don’t exist yet. Responsive design makes content flexible, so technical writers can focus on what they do best: developing high quality content.

Before I go any further, a quick explanation of what I mean by “responsive”. Responsive web design is a technique for designing web pages that automatically adjust to the device accessing them. No content is lost in responsive design; the content and the page layout simply adjust by stacking or collapsing. There is no horizontal scroll bar. Interactions – such as touch – are also components of responsive design.

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