PUBLIC MARKS with tags mobile & "responsive design"

Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness.

Social Sharing buttons can be brutal on load time (Facebook I’m looking at you) and with speed being a crucial factor in building a mobile version of your site, it can be a pain to try and maintain all those scripts without slowing down the site in the process. Loading Facebook, Twitter, Google’s +1 button, and other sharing buttons for a mobile site isn’t ideal.

‘320 and Up’ prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its starting point. Try this page at different window sizes and on different devices to see it in action.