Give me a reason NOT to make my website Responsive

I'm not gonna look at it anyway.

I don't understand the question. Why are you looking to us to give you a reason not to do something, are you or have you reservations about this notion of 'responsive' design, simply let your layout collapse fully and see how it works on small screens, 'Responsive' only means throwing a load of media queries into the mix, then creating extra work in styling the various site elements to best suit a variety of small screen displays, adding scripting so IE will work with media quiries and on and on . Perhaps your layout works on small screens well enough without additional styling?

I just wanted peoples input on this type of thing. Thanks Hugo. Verdouche, you dont need to be disrespectful but if you want it ill give it right back to ya.

What are you, like 12? It was a joke, yutz.

and i say this to you, what are you, 12? I don't read peoples posts with the intent on posting useless replys that deter others from reading the posts thinking the questions been answered.

Play nice people, lets keep on topic. It's a slightly interesting topic, I have, clearly, some sort of aversion from things like this, I think due to disliking buzz words and and development fads and the fact that as soon as one article appears suddenly masses of developers? leap on the bandwagon.

However the use of media queries has come of age somewhat and really one needs to think about how sites display on smaller devices and what tools we have available to facilitate that.

Personally I have flirted with using media queries and intend on working them into stylesheets from hence fourth albeit in a very basic sense to do things like re-arrange menus etc for widths below a certain value leaving main structural styles fully fluid.

Yes. I think I am getting Fluid layouts and Responsive layouts confused by thinking they are the same thing, er maybe not, I must learn what media queries is for sure. Time to hit up google some

You should of said play nice children instead of people, we are both 12 years old! haha.

in a nutshell 'Responsive' simply refers to a layout that is able to adjust or respond to a devices screen size at the moment the way that is achieved is through media queries but fluid layouts play an important part in allowing layouts to work at all these different screen sizes, your primary layout framework needs to be fluid and to reduce in width as you scale down, media queries then allow you to explicitly state specific styling if the query is matched