Responsive design, important or not

I'm looking to get a new website designed for a new blog I'm thinking about. Wanted to know what everyone thought of responsive design. Is it really important? Or should I not worry to much?

I saw a couple random articles that said it's really important but I'm not sure I know exactly what it is or means...

Thanks for your help!

gns

 

Responsive design is a webpage that responds to the size of the screen it is being watched (it actually works on the size of the window too)
I would say it is important since a lot of people watch blogs on mobiles or tablets and responsive design will help you give them a better experience.

 

You should have a fixed width when it's viewed on a computer, but have a mobile version as well. If you use wordpress you can get mobile plugins.

 

good to have responsive design.

 

Responsive design is very popular right now.

 

A web design is known as responsive web design, if the layout of the website can able to fit in most of the various screen sizes either it is the screen of the desktop computers or mobile, iPad, iPhone's screen. Responsible web design will help to receive the targeted traffic as well as make maintenance of the website easy.

 

Ignore the peanut gallery and listen carefully . Responsive webdesign in 2012 is critical no true professional would be caught without it . If you want to create a successful website responsive designing will place you miles ahead of the competition . Trust me I've been in this business for quite a few years . Your visitors will love a good website . Responsive web design is just the foundation , if you get it right then the sky is the limit .

 

Responsive webdesigns are the important factor in current scenorio, everyone chaning the sites to responsive from adaptive

 

its very important to have a responsible design.

 

Thanks for the insight! Do you have examples of good responsive design? Also can I just use wordpress (or something similar)? Or should I go out and have something developed from scratch?

 

Thanks for the insight! Do you have examples of good responsive design? Also can I just use wordpress (or something similar)? Or should I go out and have something developed from scratch?

 

Most Wordpress themes don't have built in responsive design . You would need to built it from scratch in most cases , however the required skillset isn't something common . Most people create some mutant webpages and call them "responsive" .

Here are two examples http://morehazards.com and http://foodsense.is

 

Responsive design is very neccessary this day. It gives the user total control of the webpage.

 

Thanks for the response. I really like foodsense.is, it seems to adapt to a variety of screen/device sizes. Anyone have other cool examples?