What is The Difference Between Fluid Design and Responsive Design?

[Peter]

I am new to web designing and confused with the terms of responsive and fluid designs. Can you explain the difference between fluid design and responsive design? Which one is better for a website to load on mobile devices?

[Alex George]

If you build a website with percentage (instead of pixel size), we call it a fluid design. In fluid design, the same layout loads on all devices.

In a responsive theme, different web layouts load on each device. That means the layout loads on a desktop PC are different from the iPad.

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[Peter]

Thank you, Alex, for the explanation. Which one (fluid design or responsive design) is better for a mobile website?

[Alex George]

Which one (fluid design or responsive design) is better for a mobile website?

Go for Responsive Themes. Fluid design is one method for developing responsive themes, but it has some problems with smaller screens.