HTML5 seems to be the answer to a publisher's prayers. Why make several websites when you could make one that will resize and adapt its design depending on the device from which you're accessing the site?

Hearst Corporation has heard the good news and converted; it is re-launching HTML5 versions of all its websites, with the 126 -year-old Good Housekeeping magazine being the first to benefit from the redesign.

Those titles that were acquired in the takeover of the publisher Hachette earlier this year will be first in line for a makeover. It is expected that all the websites across the Hearst Corporation will be re-launched in HTML 5 within 6-18 months.

All the websites will include touch-screen enabled elements, for instance a slide show (also known as a rotator) on the homepage of Good Housekeeping, which is manipulate by a mouse click when accessed via P.C. but is touch operated when accessed via smartphones and tablets.