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Responsive web design is a relatively new cutting edge technique for building websites. It has been developed owing to the recent increase in mobile browsing, through both mobile phones and tablets. In the past websites have been built to be fixed width, so no matter what device or screen size you are using to view the site it will always appear the same width. This is fine for an average desktop or laptop PC but mobile phones and tablets use much smaller screens, so the user is left needing to scroll from side to side in order to view the full page. To cope with this many companies started to produce a mobile version of their site optimised for smaller handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablets. This requires several versions of the site to be created and maintained, which is time-consuming and more expensive.  

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short, were introduced in the mid 1990’s with the aim of allowing developers to separate a webpages' content from its styling and layout. Like earlier versions, the latest update to CSS 3 works on the premise that all elements within a page (such as text, images and headings) can be given a unique ID which can then be referenced within a separate style sheet to apply a wide range of styling to the referenced element or group of elements. These styles can then cascade through all elements that the style is applied to allowing for large changes in styling and formatting to occur with a fairly small amount of actual code. 

Google has announced today that it is planning on ending testing and support on older browsers for many of their online applications. 

Google have just announced that the new 'Caffeine' indexing system, which has been under test since august 2009, has now been fully activated for all Google Searches. 'Caffeine' is designed to increase the speed with which new information appears in search results.