Have you ever opened your mobile phones and browse sites in it. Well, you might have but have you ever noticed some sites do not open or you can’t navigate through it or images are too large and text is very small. Well, it can be that a website is not responsive. As you may have guessed I'm going to talk about a website being responsive in this blog.
As technology is changing every day a responsive web design is now adopted by every web developer. It is nothing but to make a website mobile friendly. A good website should be responsive in all the devices like laptops, tablets, computers and mobile devices that vary in the screen size. Well, it can be understood like this, if a website is responsive or mobile friendly, when opened on mobile it should look and function exactly like when you have opened the same website in laptop i.e. the site should be flexible or adapt according to with and length of the screen. In layman's language, you know Amazon right. Try opening Amazon on smartphones browse, you will see it fit the screen perfectly without using its app. This is a good example of a Responsive design. This is done through intense coding by web developers.
Nowadays a website should be responsive as there is a spike in the number of the user of smartphones, online business owner are demanding websites which is user-friendly and can be opened in all devices. If a small business owner is not opting for mobile-friendly web then they are losing business. This is now the most important aspect of any online business.
You know you can test the responsiveness of the site on Google Console.
Now let's get into the more technical aspect of it, It consists of following elements-
Fluid Grids – Before responsive web design, sites were made for computer and laptop only. They can set the size of everything like font, image size, etc. in absolute terms. Now through CSS coding when opened in mobile, column quickly adapt themselves to the size of the screen. Absolute size is no use of Responsive design.
Flexible image - If a developer has set CSS width property 100%, image opened in any device will fit the screen according to size without changing resolutions. It is as important as the speed of the website because if your image is large or is of more resolution then it will take more time to open in mobiles.
Media Queries – Along with Flexible image and Fluid grids, media queries are also important for a responsive site which can change the layout of the site when viewed on different devices. With this function, you can add any device specific instruction which can be divided into different screen size. For very small phones max-width can be set to 600px and down, for large phones and tablets min-width can be set to 600px and up, for laptops/desktops min-width can set to 992px and up and for extra large devices it can be set to 1200px and up. You can look this up here-
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_mediaqueries_ex.asp
In my suggestion for every online business having a responsive website is a must. As more people are viewing the websites from their smartphones, it is necessary to have a user-friendly website that is adaptive in every device.
As technology is changing every day a responsive web design is now adopted by every web developer. It is nothing but to make a website mobile friendly. A good website should be responsive in all the devices like laptops, tablets, computers and mobile devices that vary in the screen size. Well, it can be understood like this, if a website is responsive or mobile friendly, when opened on mobile it should look and function exactly like when you have opened the same website in laptop i.e. the site should be flexible or adapt according to with and length of the screen. In layman's language, you know Amazon right. Try opening Amazon on smartphones browse, you will see it fit the screen perfectly without using its app. This is a good example of a Responsive design. This is done through intense coding by web developers.
Nowadays a website should be responsive as there is a spike in the number of the user of smartphones, online business owner are demanding websites which is user-friendly and can be opened in all devices. If a small business owner is not opting for mobile-friendly web then they are losing business. This is now the most important aspect of any online business.
You know you can test the responsiveness of the site on Google Console.
Now let's get into the more technical aspect of it, It consists of following elements-
Fluid Grids – Before responsive web design, sites were made for computer and laptop only. They can set the size of everything like font, image size, etc. in absolute terms. Now through CSS coding when opened in mobile, column quickly adapt themselves to the size of the screen. Absolute size is no use of Responsive design.
Flexible image - If a developer has set CSS width property 100%, image opened in any device will fit the screen according to size without changing resolutions. It is as important as the speed of the website because if your image is large or is of more resolution then it will take more time to open in mobiles.
Media Queries – Along with Flexible image and Fluid grids, media queries are also important for a responsive site which can change the layout of the site when viewed on different devices. With this function, you can add any device specific instruction which can be divided into different screen size. For very small phones max-width can be set to 600px and down, for large phones and tablets min-width can be set to 600px and up, for laptops/desktops min-width can set to 992px and up and for extra large devices it can be set to 1200px and up. You can look this up here-
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_mediaqueries_ex.asp
In my suggestion for every online business having a responsive website is a must. As more people are viewing the websites from their smartphones, it is necessary to have a user-friendly website that is adaptive in every device.
