Understanding the Right Approach Towards Responsive Web Design

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Understanding the Right Approach Towards
Responsive Web Design
Technology and explosion of mobile websites has
brought a revolution in the web design industry.
It is constantly pushing the professional web
design service providers to rethink on the
display of their work across multiple mobile
devices. People are highly reliable on
their mobile
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phones and tablets to surf through
websites. This paves the way for responsive
web design services. What is responsive web
design? A website with responsive web design
(RWD) is a site that is able to adapt to any
screen resolution. Regardless of the device
in use, the website can function in the
similar manner. The website automatically
reformats to give the user a better
experience. The user gets a well-deserved
user experience and your site too becomes
extensively useable. The days where a website had
an exclusive design which would suit the desktop
screen are over.
In simple terms, an RWD is the approach
which allows a web design and its code to
respond to the varying size of a device
screen. RWD exploits the fluid grids,
flexible images and CSS styling. These works
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together to solidify the site design in
accordance of the width of the browser.
This induces the responsiveness. What is the
Right Approach towards Responsive Web
Design? The staggering use of mobile devices in
the recent time has made it the need of the hour
to develop a RWD. Before choosing responsiveness
in your web design, you must know the right
approach towards it. Here are the few important
points, which will guide you and help you in
moving towards building an RWD. Navigation
Needs Special Attention Your design is under
certain limitations as you are also
designing for smaller screens. You will have
to simplify your navigational choices. You
must also use icons which are in pair with text.
Your design should have in-page links,
collapsible menus and dropdown menus for
letting
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your users to go where they want to go. In
addition, make sure that you give visual access
to the core pages. You might have space just
for four or five core links. Utilize the
fruitfully. This affects not just the overall
sites navigation. But, it also affects the
entire content strategy. Use the available space
to allow the people go where you want to direct
them. Stand Out Action Buttons The action
buttons must pop out from the page both in color
and style. The size and shape of the
buttons have an equal importance as the
buttons. The circular and rectangular
buttons are the easiest buttons to recognize.
Too much creativity tends to create
confusion among the users. Moreover, the
buttons ought to be finger friendly. Also make
sure that on different devices the buttons and
text links have a decent spacing in between them.
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Liquid Layouts Liquid layouts can accommodate
any screen size. It makes no sense to design a
particular look for iPhone and another for
android or one design for mobile phones and
another for tablets. Keep it liquid. You will not
have to design an intermediate screen size
resolution for any particular operating system,
browser or device. Use Limited Words Desktops
allow for more text. This is not always
beneficial. You need to be very careful when
you also design for mobile devices. Here
your website will work within the limits of
smaller screen. Use least number of words to
convey your message. Every word should be moving
your story ahead. You may not be able to
use the same write ups from the desktop site.
It would need some editing.
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Create Prototypes Creating prototypes and
testing your content is extremely important.
It allows you to know how to look and
feel of your design is going to translate
on different screen sizes. It allows you
to know how well it functions. You should opt
for a functional prototype on actual devices to
ensure the website functions without any
trouble. This would save you from any users
complaining about a broken site. Use Responsive
Images The images on your website should load
quickly on every device. You should make sure
that the images you use for smaller resolution
not only scale virtually. But, they should
also scale in terms of size. Large size images
can take a longer time to load on the smaller
devices. Responsive images on the other hand,
offer a powerful and effective background.
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Professional
web design service providers
can make the
responsive image designing very easy.