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We’ve talked quite a bit about Responsive Design recently on this blog, mainly because we love it so much for our Simple Sites projects.  This article by Ethan Marcotte is where it all began.  Inspired by the emergent discipline of Responsive Architecture, Marcotte’s concepts were based on a collection of CSS3 technologies that were only just beginning to see widespread browser support back when the article was written in 2010.  But almost three years later these technologies now enjoy much greater support, making Responsive Design a practical technology. Now, as I say we very much enjoying the current trend…

You’ve been playing around with responsive design for a while, but what to do about those pesky tables?  They don’t render well on small devices do they?  Well the good folks at Zurb have put some thought into that, and have come up with a solution to responsive tables.  With fixed and scrolling columns just like Excel this, you just need to include a JS and CSS file and then attached a .responsive class to your tables.  This is pretty easy to setup in Umbraco, as it only uses a class on the Table. We use Foundation from Zurb on…