10 Beneficial Responsive Web Designing Tools

In the past few years, responsive web designing has been getting popular and is now known to be one of the top techniques to design websites that look good on any device; from smartphones to smart TVs. In this article, we discuss 10 different tools (such as different frameworks, downloadable scripts, services etc.) that help in responsive web development.

1.      Skeleton

Skeleton is a great and efficient CSS framework, that majority of developers and designers like because of its usefulness and simplicity. There is no hard work and effort involved with JavaScript and you only need a clean CSS with proper, complete documentation.

2.      Semantic Grid System

The role of Semantic Grid System in responsive web designing is to design responsive grid layouts. It ensures maximum efficiency in results by making use of pre-processed CSS extensions such as SCSS, LESS or Stylus. You can choose from a range of actions like select the number of columns, choose gutter and column widths and alter between pixels and percentages.

3.      Inuit.Css

This is another CSS framework that is very easy to use, even for novice users. It is well known for its simplicity in that you just have to deal with only those things that are required, however, if needed you can extend the functionality using a range of available plug-ins.

4.      Gridless

Gridless is a responsive web designing framework for developing cross-browser and responsive websites having beautiful design. It gives importance to the progressive development of a project, and it serves as the starting point of any design.

5.      Bootstrap

Created and kept up by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton on Twitter, Bootstrap serves as an outstanding set of user interface elements, JavaScript tools, layouts that are available for free to download and use in your web design projects.

6.      1KBCSSGrid

Designed by Tyler Tate, this framework is a simple and lightweight CSS grid generator. It will help you set a number of column width, columns and gutter width, and lets you get a downloadable CSS for your sites grid.

7.      Gridpak

Gridpak is a web based responsive grid generator, where the custom breakpoints can be added and the number of padding, columns, and gutter can be modified. The CSS is created by Gridpak and is then available for download. It also gives PNG grid templates, which help in fulfilling designing requirements in Photoshop.

8.      Adapt.Js

Adapt.Js is a JavaScript solution that is a great substitute to the CSS media queries. You can make use of the @media approach but it usually does not work for all types of browsers.

9.      Masonry

It is an outstanding jQuery plugin for responsive web design and can be used to develop dynamic and adaptive layouts. Such plugin helps reorganize the elements in your responsive design, so they can fit easily and in a better way in the open spots on the grid.

10.  Isotope

Isotope is an excellent jQuery plugin that helps a lot in responsive web design. It not just aids in reorganizing and arranging the different elements of a page when the browser window size is changed or screen size is reduced, but it also enables you to filter those elements.