10 Handy Tips for Responsive Web Design
10 Jul 2016
10 Handy Tips for Responsive Web Design
The touch screen facility and the other developments in the gadgets have made the website developers to design websites according to the gadgets in which the web page can be viewed. When the web page can fit on your gadget, then the visitors of a web page can easily access all the contents and they would visit the web page again and again. This type of responsive and adaptive web designs have become popular in the last few years and one can design the website according to the device in which the visitor would view them in. The following are the five handy tips that can help any budding web developers to learn the art that involves in creating a responsive web designing.
#1. Make use of Templates:
Using a template is the first advice that any expert in a responsive web design would say to the budding web developers. The templates can help the designers to learn the tricks and the trade that can be used while designing a web page. The templates can save the time involved in designing a web page and it can bring many creative ideas that can be used on the web page. The web design templates can be found on many web pages and it can be used to learn the methods in which a responsive design works on a website.
#2. Apply the Fluid Grid Layouts:
The next tips for creating a responsive web designing deals with the layouts that are widely fluid in nature. The overall website design must adjust to different screen resolution in a notebook, mobile device or for an iPad. The overall layout of the website must quickly adapt and fit for the devices in which the website is browsed by the user. Define the widths of the website in terms of percentage rather than calculating in terms of pixels, so that you can come up with a cool responsive web design for a website.
#3. Making use of Jquery:
Jqeuery is the best tool to create a responsive web design of a website. This tool helps in providing a chance for the web designers to play with the plug-ins that can help in enhancing the adaptability and the responsiveness of the overall website design. Supersized, FitText, Elastislide and FitVids are some of the popular plug-ins of Jquery that can be used to create a responsive web design.
#4. Scalable Background Images:
The background images must be scalable and it should be taken care of while you are about to make a responsive web design. Make use of the Jquery plug-ins that can easily scale the background images that can fit well with the desired resolution of the devices in which the website will be viewed by the users.
#5. Make use of flexible imagery techniques:
Images are the most important thing that can easily make a user to notice on a website. Make use of flexible imagery techniques that can help you to save many different sizes of a single image that can be used in many places while designing a website. If the website is viewed using a mobile device, the image size that fits the best for the device will be displayed for the user and they can view the entire website without facing any kind of problem.
#6. Loading Speed:
This is not a new thing. Designers are recommended to examine the load speed every time they design a site.
We are told to avoid using images that are too large and might prevent the site from loading quick. This will annoy the visitors who have neither the patience nor the time to wait till the page loads.
So, when it comes to responsive design we repeat the same rule all over again.
But, with responsive designs it is not possible to say that we can expect enhanced loading speeds.
Studies reveal that around 48% of the responsive sites take 4 to 8 seconds to load.
What could be the possible reason that is pulling back your site’s responsiveness?
Non-optimized images. There could be no other reason that is preventing your site from loading quick.
Minimize the usage of these non-optimized images. Remember your goal is to make your site as responsive as possible.
#7. Limit the content for mobile devices:
Most important point to be noted. Your visitors are more active over Smartphones.
So, when you are crafting content for mobile devices, keep these users in mind.
They do not have time to read all that bragging you are doing and when we transit from desktop to mobiles, follow the golden rule of minimization.
The idea is to display only the necessary information to your users and nothing more.
We do not want long pages to scroll across that will force your visitors to leave.
Follow the rule of above the fold, because mobile users stick on to that. No one wants to scroll down and find what lies below the fold.
#8. Eliminate the rest:
When we design a website, we put in a lot of components because we think that all these are necessary and important when they are not.
There are a number of things that you can eliminate and help to increase the load speed of your site.
And, also, you can prevent deviating the user’s attention. When they find a lot of things populated on the page they get confused as to which is the most important.
#9. Reading should be crystal clear:
Typography is one of the factors that you need to consider when designing your responsive site.
Also, it should be readable. The font size matters. If they have to squint their eyes a lot to read what you have written, they will leave your site.
You do not want them to leave.
So, let’s keep the text clear and beautiful.
#10. Padding v/s margins:
Responsive designs and mobile devices are two critical. It is better to replace margins with padding.
The reason is that padding helps to increase the tappable area whereas margins do not help.
What margins do is increasing the white space area around the buttons.
Another simple tip is to use buttons that are bigger in size.
If you can design buttons that are in the range 44 * 44 px that provides ease of tapping.
What kind of a website do you own? Is it responsive? Have you thought of making it responsive?
If not, then, it looks like you are still living in the stone age era. Come out and breath the fresh air. Things are changing.
Let us embrace the change that the world wants. Make your site responsive because people love things that respond.
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