Monday, 2 September 2013

Top 3 Fundamentals in Responsive Web Design You ought to Know

As is obvious, the number of people relying on mobile devices is doubling day after day, the need for your website to have a responsive design has also become a necessity. To summarize about responsive website design, it’s the theme consisting of layout and content that adapts to the size of the screen. This means, be it you login Facebook on your handheld device or on a web browser, the content shifts to fit the display of your device’s screen.

What follows are the 3 most important factors to build versatile and easily adaptable website.

KISS (Keep It Simple, Supple):
By creating fewer columns with bigger content on the screen, you can give a better user experience. Smartphones are typically equipped with screen zoom in and out feature. But still, we would prefer to visit a site where information is easier to read. And, Responsive Website Designers these days are finding a loop hole to simplify web design be avoiding all inline styles.

Content Matters: Secondly, your content is highly important for the success of your mobile site. In the event of your mobile screen size being small when compared to PCs, you must find a better means to present your details and images. So, do an overhaul of the content and keep things simple.

A recent New York report says, out of 60% mobile users, 44% complained that navigation on non-responsive site was difficult. Hence, investing in mobile responsive designs to consistently gain customers even as the market goes mobile is very important.

Use of Media Queries: Media queries let you specify height and width, orientation and colour conditions, to help you create websites that can shrink down to fit different screen sizes and resolutions.

There are so many things you can do to create a responsive website and most of all is to test and retest, and finding out what works for you in the end.

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