I took a brief tour of the FreewayTalk posts about responsive design sites and it looks as though that’s still not a possibility with Freeway Pro.
Can anyone confirm that?
I’d like to find a way to update my site so it responds to mobile screens using responsive design. (Currently, I use sniffer code to re-direct mobile visitors to mobile-sized pages on my site, but that’s not the best approach.)
So, are there any plans to add responsive design features to Freeway Pro in the future?
On 18 Nov 2013, at 22:36, “Jamie Turner” email@hidden wrote:
I took a brief tour of the FreewayTalk posts about responsive design sites and it looks as though that’s still not a possibility with Freeway Pro.
Can anyone confirm that?
I’d like to find a way to update my site so it responds to mobile screens using responsive design. (Currently, I use sniffer code to re-direct mobile visitors to mobile-sized pages on my site, but that’s not the best approach.)
So, are there any plans to add responsive design features to Freeway Pro in the future?
Then Freeway 6 came out and being able to use max-width out of the box and together with external styles made the whole thing easier.
Once you go down this route you will learn you own things. I recently realised it’s easier just making media query break points on the design is better than on device width.
David Owen { Freeway Friendly Web hosting and Domains }
I’ll just second what David said. Creating responsive websites is very possible with Freeway. However, it requires a lot more knowledge than creating a “normal” fixed-width site.
If you want to really build responsive websites, there is no substitute for learning HTML and CSS yourself. These markup languages are actually much easier to teach yourself than most people make them out to be. Sign up for a free account at Codecademy and devote an hour a day to learning this stuff. I can guarantee that you’ll never regret it.
Learn inline design in FW. For me, inline construction never clicked until I had learned the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. Once, again, teach yourself those ASAP.
I agree with Caleb. Though I would add that CSS, while very easy to grasp the basics, is also a deceptively powerful, nuanced and at times, complex language. Once you start working with it the depth of it starts to reveal itself.
Todd
These markup languages are actually much easier to teach yourself than most people make them out to be.
And dont forget that Caleb’s responsive template for FW Pro - BackDraft http://backdraft.onrampwebdesign.com/ can get you started without too much pain.