As the share of smartphones is rising it is a great time to invest in mobile user experience
If you are running a website, you must have a responsive web design so that your website is accessible via mobiles as well. If you are not aware of all the hype responsive web design is getting, you should learn more about it.
Responsive web design
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Before anything else, it is important to understand what responsive web design actually is. To be precise, Responsive Web Design is a technique which enables your website to fit virtually into any device. By any device, I mean literally any device and it could be smart phones, tablets, TV, your PC’s monitor, iPhone and Android phones with both landscape and portrait modes. All you need to do is correctly implement the responsive web design and you will see that your website fits on any device.
Substitute to Responsive Design
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Ever since the mobiles have become an alternative for desktop browsing, responsive web design has gained immense popularity. Some people think that having a responsive web design is the best way to get accessible to more and more people. However, some websites are too complicated to implement Responsive web designing. For such websites, there are two alternatives which are following:
– A completely separate mobile version of your website
If you think that responsive web designing cannot be implemented on your current web design, you can get a new mobile version designed of your website. If a user visits your website from mobile, they will be redirected to the mobile version of the website and system will detect their smartphone and will display the website accordingly.
– Mobile App
Developing a mobile App is the best way to go if you do not want to get into the hassle of designing a responsive website. However, developing a Mobile App separately can be expensive and the negative point about Mobile Apps is that they are not part of ‘Open Web’ due to which search engines cannot find them.
Advantages and disadvantages of Responsive Web Design
You cannot consider responsive web design to be one size-fit solution for all mobiles. It is not exactly a replacement for mobile websites. However, it is pretty much in demand and has a lot of advantages. Along with the advantages, everything has its own disadvantages and so does responsive web designing. Let us take a look at pros and cons of responsive web designing.
Advantages of Responsive web design
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Drawbacks of Responsive Web Design
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Conclusion
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Responsive web design is not meant for all kinds of websites. Although, due to the recent advancement in technology, visits to websites from mobile has increased but still among all the top and most famous websites, only 9% have their mobile websites ready. However, the good news is that Google has recommended responsive web design configuration which is bound to make it more popular.
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