crucial tips for creating a responsive website

12/1/2016 Crucial Tips For Creating A Responsive Website

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Crucial Tips For Creating A ResponsiveWebsite

As I mentioned earlier, it’s the age of mobile devices nowadays. In fact, there are 6.8 billion people on

the planet, 4 billion of them use a mobile phone and only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush. How

ridiculous it is! That’s why if your website doesn’t read well on those devices, it is possible to lose out

on a huge chunk of potential customers. This is where responsive design can come into the picture

and save your day nicely.

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Good news is that creating a responsive website

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daunting as it once was. Follow these crucial tips for a responsive site that actually works well and

provides the ៹�exibility it’s supposed to.

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Ke e p t h i n g s s i m p l e

One of the ퟷ�rst and foremost principles to keep in mind when creating a responsive website: simplicity

is the key to brilliance. Sometimes, web designers want to show off their excellence designing skills

when creating a website. That’s not bad at all but when it comes to responsive website, everything

should be made as simple as possible. Also, 2016 is about minimalism and simplicity.

Remember that you are delivering the content to a very limited space, there’s no room out there for

you to clutter up.

R e m ove t h e u n n e c e s s a r y c o n t e n tIn order to make your responsive site really shine, simply bear one thing in mind: get rid of non-

essential content. It’s not only for your user experience, but also website’s speed.

You know some content or elements of a desktop website are never meant to be used in its mobile

version. Our goal is not to precisely reproduce the desktop website, but to offer the same experience

to all visitors even coming in through their smartphone or their tablet.

Take the sidebar as an example, it’s a fundamental element of desktop web design, but it can clutter

up the limited space of mobile screens.

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Because mobile is becoming more relevant than desktop, you should always focus on the way visitors

interact with your website by using their mobile phones ퟷ�rst. Then build out your design for larger

screen size. This will ensure the best possible user experience across all platforms.

M a ke yo u r i m a g e s ៹� e x i b l eEveryone already knew that one of the drawbacks of responsive design is slow loading time. But not

all of them know the main reason behind a slow site is non-optimized images. So don’t let those

images drag your responsiveness down.

You can make your images ៹�exible in a variety of ways, but one of the easiest methods is using this

little handy tool: Adaptive Image (http://www.adaptive-images.com/)

One more thing, be sure to use GIF, JPEG or PNG-8 formats to limit ퟷ�le sizes and help speed up the

website.

M a ke f r i e n d w i t h M e d i a Q u e r i e sFor those who haven’t been acquainted with media queries yet, they are a feature of CSS3 that allow

content to respond to different condition on a particular device. Media queries check for a device’s

resolution, height, width, and orientation. Media queries come in really handy when creating a

responsive website. They are extremely simple to use as well.

M a ke yo u r w e b s i t e re a d a b l e

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Nothing is more frustrating than zoom in and out, up and down, right and left to read content. So,

make sure your website legible. Visitors always want convenience, not a challenge. Your text should

be large enough and comfortable to read from a smaller screen. I highly recommend a text size of

16px, 1 em or 12 pt.

F i n a l t h o u g h tThese mentioned above are just some of the more important ones you can try out. And hopefully by

now you already had some ideas of how you can use these tips for your stunning responsive website.

Now, your turn! What design tips have you been embracing so far? Please let me know in the

comments below.

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