Full responsive websites

[Fubals]

Does Adobe BC have any plans in the near future to include pre-coded responsive website templates built for the BC platform? If so, would that include a fully functioning online shop in responsive format...

Can anyone shed some insight into how they are dealing with responsive websites integrated with BC modules like webapps, BC's online shop framework etc... any major pitfalls to look out for?

[BCTemple]

It seems unlikely that will happen in the short term.  The current templates took a long time and some areas of those are haphazardly integrated.

Responsive web requires planning on an individual site basis so it's hard to throw anything specific out there.  The majority of BC is fine, especially web apps being you're building them from scratch.

eCommerce can be tricky in areas (shopping cart, order history, invoices etc.) just because they often need a bit of rebuilding as they're tables and tend to stretch the mobile boundaries.

Some areas you need to make sure you get rid of the tables entirely by telling BC to use LI's in the module tag.

Overall you just need to plan it out, perhaps build a couple of frameworks you can start from so the basics are there when you start a site.

Scott Reynolds just did a responsive presentation on the BC Sandpile: http://www.bcsandpile.com/business-catalyst/resources.htm (Under previous sandpiles).

Here is a site we finished early this month that is responsive and eCommerce: http://bit.ly/ZKKr1u

[Fubals]

Hi, appreciate your views. The site you mentioned doesnt seem to be a responsive site??, are you sure you entered the right link?

[Liam Dilley]

^ Awesome information.

To add - Any additions to site, development and changes all need to have say the media query aspects updated and the new additions working int he responsive model as well.

I doubt BC will offer these as well as they are a lot to them and if they do, you wont see it any time soon.

People who are above the curve with their site builds and design are already moving off reponsive as a note. If your target audiance viewing is not all on mobile or that is a small percentage then you do not need to invest so much in responsive.

A lot of people are turning to full apps for the better control and features that produces.

While there are things you can do to load different size images etc in most cases you are loading the same website and if you are load concious you may want to tailor your content for the mobile reading, there is a lot you can remove.

You can have better interactions with the mobile device as an app as well.

[studiomigo]

Hi

As mentioned above responsive design can be tricky when it comes to loading assets and complex pages such as e-commerce module.

I created a few sites using Twitter Bootstrap framework and they all work great and fast on all devices. This approach enables to use a few templates or even just two for home and internal pages. then use sprite images and media query css to handle the look and feel.

There are responsive BC templates that are fully responsive at http://www.tribevita.com/ which work just fine.

If you're going to create a dynamic site with a lot of content I would recommend creating a desktop and tablet responsive design and keep mobile phone as a seperate template and content which is a pretty handy tool to have in BC.

Cheers

[BCTemple]

@Fubals - sorry that was the landing page - you can either click demo on the right or visit this link: http://bit.ly/ZNEazS

@Liam - there are certainly massive benefits heading towards app's for mobile viewing.