Adaptive Web Design
A style of website design that creates web pages of different sizes in order to appear appropriately on devices with different screen sizes. It differs from Responsive Web DesignAn approach to web design that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or scr... in that it is actually multiple websites of different sizes rather than a single website which is coded to adapt to different screen sizes. Today, Responsive Web DesignAn approach to web design that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or scr... is now the recommended style, and Adaptive Web Design is no longer the recommended style for creating responsive websites.