Responsive Web Design
Almost each and every person nowadays, wants a mobile version of their websites. This can be made possible through Responsive Web Design. Responsive Websites are ones that have been designed using the latest technology. It must be designed in such a way that it looks good at any size i.e, from a large desktop monitor to the smaller screens used on tablets and mobile phones. A responsive design ensures the visitor to have a similar experience of using the site on every type of device. It is a philosophy of developing web pages in an efficient and easy-to-read format over a variety of devices on different platforms. Our web designs are based on the environment i.e. screen size, orientation.
Inspite of using the traditional approach to design the web pages for viewing them only on the PC's, responsive web designs have come into use. It uses a variety of new web development features and functions, in a way that provides the viewers an optimal view on mobile devices, PC's and other electronic devices.
Due to their smaller display size, the mobile devices typically require a modified layout to display the content that will help the users navigate the website in an efficient manner. Through the means of responsive web designing, the web developers are able to code their web pages for a variety of display sizes.
There are 3 main components of Responsive Web Design
1. Flexible Layouts - The website layout can be created using a flexible grid that will eventually resize to any width.
2. Media Queries - The media queries allow the designers to specify a variety of styles for a specified browser and device conditions.
3. Flexible Media - This makes media(images,videos and other formats) ascendible by changing the size of the media, as the size of the outlook changes.
The old non-responsive websites were the ones that could be easily read on desktop screens but had a very small and unreadable text on mobile phones. Whereas, with the help of responsive designing, the web developers need not focus on specified display sizes. They design their responsive web codes in a manner that readily adapts a range of display sizes, having different layouts that are based on the display sizes and the capabilities of the PC's or mobile phones.
