Responsive Web Design on Speckyboy Design Magazine https://speckyboy.com/topic/responsive-web-design/ Resources & Inspiration for Creatives Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:45:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://speckyboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cropped-sdm-favicon-32x32.png Responsive Web Design on Speckyboy Design Magazine https://speckyboy.com/topic/responsive-web-design/ 32 32 10+ Free Responsive Website Mockup Templates for UI Designers https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-website-mockup-template/ https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-website-mockup-template/#respond Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:37:11 +0000 https://speckyboy.com/?p=105558 A fantastic collection of free responsive website mockups templates you can use to showcase your web design in realistic scenarios.

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Having a responsive website that looks great on all devices is crucial. As such, responsive website mockup templates have been designed to help you and your clients visualize how a website design will appear on various screen sizes, typically on a mobile phone, tablet, and desktop computer.

They allow you to analyze and display how your web layout’s components and elements will look and function on various devices and sizes.

Many responsive website mockup templates are available online and vary in complexity and features. Some templates have been designed specifically for certain types of websites, others focus on a website’s branding, while others are more general-purpose.

Creating different device mockups for various screen sizes can also be time-consuming, but with some help, you can easily show how a website will look with the free responsive mockup templates we have for you today.


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The 50+ Best Free Responsive HTML Web Templates https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-html-web-layout-templates/ https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-html-web-layout-templates/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:37:50 +0000 https://speckyboy.com/?p=145220 A collection of HTML and CSS web layout templates that are perfect for building your next website. All templates are responsive and free.

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If you need a new website or want to give your current site a modern update, this collection of 50 free responsive web and HTML templates is an excellent place to start.

These templates are easy to use and fully customizable, making it simple to create a professional-looking website without breaking the bank. With a responsive design, your website will look great on any device, from desktop computers to mobile phones.

By utilizing templates, you can impress your visitors with your design expertise without needing to be an expert in web design. These templates offer a wide range of features and customization options, allowing you to create a website that stands out from the competition.

Using templates can save you both time and effort when building web pages online. They come pre-built with various design elements, including typography, color schemes, and layouts. This means you don’t have to spend hours creating each page from scratch, freeing up time for other important tasks.

Whether you’re a small business owner, blogger, or designer, you’ll find a free template that meets your needs in this collection. There are templates available for various industries, including business, e-commerce, portfolio, and more.


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30 Free Responsive Newsletter Templates for Your Marketing Campaigns https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-email-templates/ https://speckyboy.com/free-responsive-email-templates/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:00:59 +0000 http://speckyboy.com/?p=50022 Boost your marketing campaigns with our free, easy-to-edit, and responsive newsletter templates that work across all devices and email clients.

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Since the inception of the web, newsletters have played a critical role in marketing, and continue to be an essential communication method for businesses and brands to share new content and product updates. Even though social media has gained tremendous popularity, email remains unbeatable. Most users prefer to keep their business within their private inboxes while leaving their personal lives on social networks.

This year, an estimated 347 billion emails will be sent and received daily, with over 90% being checked or opened on mobile devices. Therefore, using a responsive template for your email marketing campaigns is crucial.

Designing simple HTML emails is already challenging, but creating ones that work well across all email clients and devices’ varying screen sizes is even more daunting.

Fortunately, several designers and developers have done most of the work for you by creating free, easy-to-edit, and responsive newsletter templates that work on all devices and email clients. You’ll find the best of them below.


Pre-Designed Responsive Newsletter Templates

Briar Free Responsive Email Template (by Slicejack)

Briar is a free responsive newsletter template with a simple design. It has been thoroughly tested with Litmus and EmailOnAcid and works perfectly well with all email clients. This template is MailChimp-ready.

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Green Village Free HTML Template (by Pixelbuddha)

Green Village is a clean pre-designed email template that is suitable for various purposes and business types. The download package includes both a layered PSD template and the HTML source files.

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Olivia eCommerce Responsive Email Template

Compatible with almost all email service providers, Olivia is a responsive newsletter template that comes bundled with thirteen pre-designed modules so you can create your newsletter exactly how you want it.

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Bussy Free HTML Email Template (by MailBakery)

Bussy is a free newsletter template that has been designed with a simple layout and dark blue and soft red color scheme, making it ideal for corporate business.

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Passion Free Responsive Email Template (by Pixelbuddha)

Modern and clean, Passion is a multi-purpose email template that various business types can use. It is compatible with both MailChimp and CampaignMonitor, and works in all major email clients.

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Madeline eCommerce Responsive Email Template

Easy to customize and bundled with nine pre‑designed modules, Madeline is the perfect responsive newsletter template for fashion and eCommerce businesses. You can create your newsletter without writing a single line of code by using the built-in email builder.

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MailPortfolio Free Responsive Email Template (by Slicejack)

With a simple and clean design, MailPortfolio is a free responsive email newsletter for sending personal portfolio or blogging updates to your readers and followers.

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Emailology Responsive Email Template (by Email On Acid)

Released by Email on Acid, Emailology is a pre-designed template that offers three layouts that trigger based on the screen’s width. By default, it supports either one, two, or three columns, and as you activate each media query, the template converts to a one-column layout for mobile devices.

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Way Mail Email Template

Way Mail is a collection of email templates that comes with over thirty pre-designed modules. Responsive, compatible with all major email service providers, and also includes the PSD templates of the original design.

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Creative Boost HTML Email Template (by MailBakery)

Creative Boost is a free newsletter template from MailBakery that is fully responsive and tested in all major email clients. It comes with a dark color scheme that would be perfect for most types of businesses.

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Free Material Design HTML Email Template (by Paul Goddard)

Created by Paul Goddard and based on the design aesthetics of Google’s Material Design, this simple newsletter template has been fully Litmus tested and is completely free to use.

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Dazzle Photography Email Newsletter Template

Even though the minimally designed Dazzle newsletter template has been specifically built for photographers, it could easily be edited and used by any creative person or agency. It comes with an online builder, so you don’t need to know any coding to design your newsletter.

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Daily Times Email Template (by Email On Acid)

The free newsletter template Daily Times is perfect for online newspapers, magazines, and personal bloggers to share content with their followers and readers. It can even deliver dynamic ads when paired with LiveIntent’s software.

Daily Times free responsive newsletter template email

Shopilicious Free HTML Email Template (by MailBakery)

Thoroughly tested in all major email clients, Shopilicious is a free responsive newsletter template that has been designed specifically for eCommerce stores.

Shopilicious HTML free responsive newsletter template email

Litmus Responsive Email Templates (7 Templates, by Stamplia)

Designed by Stamplia and released by Litmus, this is a collection of seven pre-designed responsive email templates that have been thoroughly ‘Litmus-tested.’ They also come with the PSD source files.

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Barebones Responsive Newsletter Templates

Cerberus Responsive HTML Email Templates (3 Templates, by Ted Goas)

Cerberus is a small collection of robust and thoroughly tested barebones HTML email templates. The Fluid template is percentage-based and shrinks on mobile screens, the Responsive template uses media queries, and finally, there’s a Hybrid template that uses a blend of both percentages and media queries.

Antwort Responsive Layouts for Email (3 Templates)

Antwort offers a small collection of barebones responsive layouts for email that fits and adapts to client widths. The one, two, and three-column templates work perfectly well on all major desktop and mobile email clients. The templates also come with extensive documentation.

Email Blueprints HTML Email Templates (6 Templates, by MailChimp)

MailChimp released this collection of six bare-bones responsive templates, entitled Email Blueprints, so that they could be used as a solid starting point for designing email newsletters. The templates include some MailChimp specific template language elements, but they can be easily removed if you are not a MailChimp user.

Basic Free HTML Email Template (by MailBakery)

Designed to be used as a base for your own responsive email newsletters, Basic is a free to download template that comes with just enough CSS and a simple layout so that you can get started quickly.

Responsive Table-Based Email Template (by Phil Wareham)

This barebones template has been based on MailChimp’s Email Blueprints and the Email Boilerplate from Sean Powell. It is a responsive table-based email template that includes MailChimp merge tags, but they can be removed if you don’t need them.

Responsive Newsletter Frameworks

Foundation for Emails (11 Templates)

Previously called Ink, Foundation for Emails is a responsive email framework from ZURB that includes a flexible grid system and some simple UI elements for rapid email prototyping. Foundation for Emails also has 11 responsive email templates available.

MJML Responsive Email Framework (21 Templates)

MJML is a markup language that has been designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes the language straightforward, while its rich standard components library shortens your development time and lightens your email codebase. MJML’s open-source engine takes care of translating the MJML you wrote into responsive HTML.

Bojler Responsive Email Framework (2 Templates)

The Bojler Framework has been built by the team at Slicejack to make it easier for you to create lightweight and responsive newsletters. The framework has been thoroughly tested on numerous email clients and devices.

The HTML Email Framework (3 Templates)

The HTML Email Framework has been developed to help you build responsive HTML email templates using pre-set grid options and simple components needed for building responsive HTML email templates. It support’s over 60+ email clients.

Maizzle Framework for Rapid Email Prototyping (5 Templates)

Powered by Tailwind CSS and a Node.js build system, Maizzle is a modern framework for developing HTML emails and newsletters. The framework doesn’t use tags like row or column; instead, you use real HTML tags that you style with Tailwind CSS’s utility classes.

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25 Lightweight & Minimalist CSS Frameworks Worth Considering https://speckyboy.com/responsive-lightweight-css-frameworks/ https://speckyboy.com/responsive-lightweight-css-frameworks/#comments Mon, 20 May 2024 09:51:19 +0000 https://speckyboy.com/?p=91307 A collection of lightweight and responsive CSS frameworks that provide everything you need to get started on your next web project quickly.

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CSS frameworks are pre-written CSS files that help web designers and developers create websites faster and more efficiently. They are perfect for those looking to launch projects without getting bogged down in the details of coding CSS from scratch.

In this collection, we’re focusing on smaller, lightweight frameworks. These minimalist frameworks all offer a simpler alternative to more comprehensive and popular systems like Bootstrap, Foundation, or Tailwind, which, while powerful, might not be the best option for every web project.

Although each framework mentioned here has been updated within the past year, you should still review the changelog before integrating them into your workflow or project.


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CSS Snippets for Creating Responsive HTML Tables https://speckyboy.com/responsive-html-table-techniques/ https://speckyboy.com/responsive-html-table-techniques/#comments Tue, 14 May 2024 05:06:48 +0000 https://speckyboy.com/?p=96541 There are techniques we can use to make HTML tables more mobile-friendly. We explore a few approaches you can take to make data accessible on all screens.

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The venerable HTML table may (thankfully) be long-dead in terms of its use for page layout. But it’s still going strong with regards to its original intention: displaying tabular data. They’re still incredibly useful and have been enhanced further by the likes of CSS and jQuery.

Still, large tables aren’t always a great experience on mobile screens. If not handled properly, columns can be cut off and thus unreadable. It just makes for a poor UX.

Thankfully there are techniques we can use to make tables more user-friendly on mobile devices. Let’s explore a few approaches we can take to ensure that data is accessible on every screen. We’ll also provide a working example so you can see it in action.


Horizontal Scrolling

Here’s a super easy way to give mobile users access to a very wide table. Adding a container element with the overflow-x property set to auto will allow for horizontal scrolling on small screens. Not necessarily the most elegant way to do things, but at least the content is accessible. Special thanks to W3 Schools for the concept.

See the Pen Simple Responsive Table by Eric Karkovack

Collapsible Cells with Repositioned Table Headers

This method is a little bit more user-friendly than scrolling, albeit more difficult to set up. On mobile screens, each td cell is displayed as a block, thus stacking them on top of each other. Then, using some trickery with the data-th attribute and the :before CSS selector, tables headers are essentially moved from the top row over to the left.

See the Pen Responsive Table by Geoff Yuen

Below is a slightly different take on this option. Rather than using the data-th attribute, table header items are defined via the CSS content property. While the effect is essentially the same, the requirements for maintaining code are different. This solution is probably better for smaller sites that don’t contain many tables.

See the Pen Responsive Table by Alico

Static Left Table Headers with Horizontal Scrolling

Here we see a table header (thead) that is setup to float:left via CSS and remain statically positioned on small screens. Rows of data are converted into columns, making for a nicely-organized table. A bit of JavaScript is used to keep the table headers the same height and alignment as the other cells.

See the Pen Responsive Tables by Jason Gross

Element Queries

Element queries focus on the sizing requirements of specific elements rather than on just the dimensions of a browser window. They’re experimental at this point, but you can read more about them at EQCSS (which also offers a JS library to utilize). In the following table example, the td cells are arranged in various column layouts. The whole thing is based on the width of table elements. This is definitely an interesting technique worth keeping an eye on.

See the Pen Responsive Tables: Grid Layout by Tommy Hodgins

Data Tables jQuery Plugin

The Data Tables jQuery plugin adds all kinds of useful functionality to standard HTML tables. And its responsive abilities are quite amazing. The script will automatically hide columns based upon screen size. The hidden data is available for viewing with a click (or touch). You also have the flexibility to give priority to specific columns. The example below shows a responsive table in all its glory.

See the Pen Responsive Table with DataTables by SitePoint

Choosing the Best Technique

The techniques above are really just a small sampling of what developers are doing with responsive tables. They range from extremely simple all the way to complicated, script-dependent concoctions.

When it comes to picking the right solution for your project, it really comes down to a few factors:

  1. Consider the size of the tables you’ll create and what type of data they’ll contain.
  2. Determine what dependencies you are comfortable with.
  3. Think about the potential for automating the whole process.

If you’re building a relatively small website that will only contain a table or two, then future maintenance might not be a big concern. But with larger sites, you’ll want to think of ways to keep everything running smoothly as new tables are added, and existing ones are changed.

For example, using a method that pulls information from a data attribute can be really effective – but also potentially difficult to maintain. This is especially so if a non-designer will be responsible for adding content. In that case, it would be worthwhile to try and automate the process of creating data attributes through PHP or other code. That way, the person responsible for content doesn’t have to worry about dealing with code.

Tables present a unique challenge for designers. They were imagined long before the mobile web came into existence. But with a little creativity, you can build a great user experience – even on the smallest of screens.

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5 Printable Templates for Sketching Responsive Layouts https://speckyboy.com/sketchsheets-for-responsive-web-design/ https://speckyboy.com/sketchsheets-for-responsive-web-design/#comments Fri, 10 May 2024 15:45:55 +0000 http://speckyboy.com/?p=35037 As mobile devices evolve, designing websites responsively has become necessary. However, unlike static or fixed websites, the fluidity and flexibility of responsive sites can make it challenging to convey design...

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As mobile devices evolve, designing websites responsively has become necessary. However, unlike static or fixed websites, the fluidity and flexibility of responsive sites can make it challenging to convey design ideas visually.

Fortunately, there are some helpful tools available for responsive design, including the most basic and essential ones: pencil and paper. Specifically, sketchsheets for responsive web design can be incredibly useful.

We have compiled a collection of printable wireframing templates that you might find helpful when sketching your designs. These templates will provide a starting point and help you create a visually appealing and responsive website.