Tips for Responsive Web Designing
Mobile web is growing
at a faster pace and has become a crucial part of businesses these
days. Almost every firm wants their website to be optimized for
mobile handsets. This is because people spend most of their time on
smart phones. They are the most readily available source to access
any information people want. So a mobile optimized website reaches to
a larger customer base and hence generates more revenue.
In web designing and development, it is not possible every time to keep up with the
unending new devices and resolutions. For various websites,
developing a website version for each new device and resolution is
nearly impossible. This is where a responsive web design comes in.
A responsive web design
refers to an approach that proposes that your web design and
development should be adaptive and respond to the visitor’s
behavior and surroundings depending on platform, screen size and
orientation. The approach comprises of a combination of flexible
grids and layouts, pictures and appropriate use of CSS media queries.
A responsive website is one which gets easily accomodated to the
image size, resolution and scripting abilities as soon as the user
switches from a laptop to an iPad. There are few points to be kept
in mind while creating a responsive web design:
Ensure that users get the same quality of browsing experience
First and foremost
thing to keep in mind while developing a responsive web design is to
make sure that the site is so built that the navigation experience is
perfectly the same for all visitors across the board. This means a
user browsing your site through their desktop should get the same
browsing experience as a visitor accessing it through their tablet or
smart phone.
Consider
responsiveness while designing your website
Keep
in mind that your site layout and HTML codes should be as simple as
possible and use simple mechanisms for the elemnts such as menu
options and navigation. Also use HTML5 guidelines and doctype and a
user-friendly overall core layout.
You should avoid things
like useless absolute positioning and fancy Javascript or Flash
elements that will make your site too complicated.
Focus
on your breakpoints
Resolutions
can be taken in the form of groups of breakpoints, however there are
many major sizes that one needs to focus on rather than any other.
These are - <768 px (which is perfect for big smartphones and
small tablets), < 480 px (whic is ideal for older, smaller screen
sizes and smartphones and >768 px which is applicable for bigger
screens such as that of desktop and tablets. These are some of the
main breakpoints to be focussed.
Make
the images flexible
You
can incorporate flexible images in your simple web design. This can
be easily done by using adaptive resizing and sizing their width.
There are different methods to acheive this but using tools like
Adaptive Images is one of the simplest methods.
Compress
your site elements and content for easy transmission
Use
programs like GZIP for compressing your page resources to ensure easy
transmission across different networks. This will lower the number of
bytes transmitted per page or element thereby making your content
easy to browse and access from electronic gadgest with different or
low bandwith. Moreover, you can also remove unnecessary white space
and line breaks in order to speed up the things.
Remove
unnecessary content
Remove
any non-essential content that are not meant to be used in a mobile
context in order to make a mobile friendly responsive web design.
These
are only few important points to consider when creating a responsive
design. If you want your website to function properly you need to
develop it in such a way that it can work quickly on devices with
small processing power, low resolution and weak bandwidth access.
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