Parting advice
All that is left, in the remainder of the chapter, and indeed the book (please, don’t cry—you’ll start me off), is for me to offer what I feel are the most important considerations for any responsive web project. Here goes.
Getting designs in the browser as soon as possible
The more responsive web work I have done, the more important I have found it to get designs up and running in a browser environment as soon as possible. If you are a designer as well as a developer, then that simplifies matters. As soon as you have enough of a feel, visually, for what you need, you can get it prototyped and develop the idea further in a browser environment.
If you are primarily a developer, then this can aid the design process hugely in order to get the design living and breathing in the browser. Without fail, every project that I work on gets revised in some way as a result of the designs being built in the browser. That isn’t a failure of...