
Big hugs to all of you!
From what I've been reading, it seems that creating a responsive design would be pretty easy for those of you with strong CSS skills. Some JS is handy too.
Many of these sites seem to be planned to look good on a variety of devices without being overly picky about it. The layouts "break" at certain widths to accommodate small screens and pads then stop at a min. width (320px) for phone/portrait. So they may not be "pixel perfect" on every screen, but they do display just fine whether in portrait or landscape mode without having to plan for every single device out there.
I keep having to re-adjust my layouts because I'm basically giving myself a crash course in CSS as I do this.
Tweaking paddings and margins, experimenting with floats... then mixing in stuff like Google maps and Facebook boxes (that have their own way of doing things!).... It is fun to see how it works at different resolutions/sizes, but a bit frustrating too

– one really has to lose the desire to control how everything is placed. It's more about letting the content flow in a logical order no matter what screen it's displayed on. So, those with more CSS know-how will have an easier time getting things into the best possible arrangement.
For myself, even if I had the coding experience, I'd still check out a few of these templates to get a feel for what's possible and if there are standard methods common to responsive designs.
***I'm going to blame Dreamweaver for sending me down the WYSIWYG path

(though I'll always remain loyal to VSD). I started using the CCEditor to add a bit of code to VSD sites and it really opened my eyes to how much easier things can be when you have the right tools. So I was going to start my HTML/CSS learning with a simple CC template – figuring it would take some time to first learn how to use the Editor, but it made it so easy to get going – I dived right into the responsive site
Y'all need to get going with this so I'll have some brains to pick!!!