Background / History : Ethan Marcotte, A Developer, And A Web Designer Helped Responsive Web Design
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Ethan Marcotte, a developer, and a web designer helped Responsive Web Design become what it is today. In fact, the origin of the name, Responsive Web Design, can be traced directly to Marcotte. In his book from 2011 simply titled Marcotte, he wrote about how he discovered Responsive Architecture. This architecture consisted of moving structure and color-changing walls, properties of the architecture that were previously viewed as constraints but are now part of Responsive Web Design. Marcotte wanted to apply this newly discovered architecture to web design. This web design would adapt itself to the user and that is when Marcotte came up with the idea of Responsive Web Design (Harb, Kapellari, Luong, Spot, 2011, p. 5).…show more content… 7).
Although the iPhone played a significant part in helping mobile Internet traffic grow, that is not the only reason that more and more people continued to browse the web on their phones rather than their computers. As mobile devices kept getting better, they also got cheaper. Mobile phones, cheap or not, were still usually more affordable than a desktop or a laptop, and this included mobile data plans as well (Harb, Kapellari, Luong, Spot, 2011, p. 7).
Mobile networks have also contributed to helping the mobile Internet grow: “Broader coverage of faster networks has also been helping. In 2010 alone, mobile network speeds doubled. As networks became twice as fast, the average data usage of smartphones doubled as well” (Harb, Kapellari, Luong, Spot, 2011, p. 7).
Since the iPhone was released, the use of the web and the Internet altogether on mobile phones has done nothing but grown and spiked. There have been several more models of the iPhone released and eventually more smartphones began to pop up, including Samsung’s line of Galaxy S phones. With so many smartphone options available and the library of smartphones only increasing, the use of the Internet on mobile phones will only continue to grow (Harb, Kapellari, Luong, Spot, 2011, p. 7).
Responsive Web Design With the rapid rise of mobile and smartphones, websites were suddenly in need of a way to be used and fit on a mobile phone’s web