{"id":115,"date":"2022-08-13T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexmcc.com\/webagency\/?p=115"},"modified":"2022-08-21T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:27:00","slug":"responsive-web-design-before-responsive-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexmcc.com\/webagency\/responsive-web-design-before-responsive-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsive web design before responsive web design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In HTML, before CSS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsinteractive.com\/blog\/ws-agency-museum-1998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">if you built your tables properly<\/a>, you could be already doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexmcc.com\/blog\/web-site-design\/responsive-web-design-ethan-marcotte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responsive web design<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you did not need to embed table after table. Proper, one-level tables. Purest of pure. 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