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Ashish Jain
6,319 Pointsresponsive web design
Hi, we are being taught that mobile first approach is better.
However, I am more comfortable in making for a larger screen first then go forward with the mobile version.
I want to know.. whether I am correct in that approach? Are there any industry standards for the mobile first approach?
2 Answers
David Moorhead
18,005 PointsHi, Ashish Jain,
After seeing results of an online search, I found numerous articles on mobile-first approaches for construction of web pages, not least of which are, for example, U.S. state governments.
The World Wide Web Consortium might always be your first choice for web construction standards. W3C was established in 1994, and their standards for mobile web design are noted here. That link is only the first of many at W3C.
I hope that's helpful 
David
Mark Wilkowske
Courses Plus Student 18,131 PointsHello Ashish, it sounds like you're doing this: desktop -> mobile but you will eventually have to come back to desktop view again to address issues like stacking order so you'd end up like this (as I have myself): desktop -> mobile -> desktop.
I wouldn't necessarily say your approach is incorrect, if time doesn't matter, but I found out that approach cost a lot of time when I should have started at mobile and switch views to tablet and then desktop. One Bootstrap project I was on was mostly switching from tablet down to mobile and tablet up to desktop: mobile <- tablet -> desktop. As well, mobile first helped me understand responsive frameworks a lot better. Hope you can find something useful in this answer. have a great day!