29 April, 2013
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Benefits of Responsive Web Design for Digital Marketing
Benefits of Responsive Web Design for Digital Marketing
In web design, we call a website "responsive" if
it adapts itself to the viewers’ screen as it changes. The changes can be on a
computer or laptop screen, like when you maximize your browser window or when
you reduce it to a smaller size to see something else; but it might be more
known among portable devices like smartphones and tablets, which are very
varied in sizes. Having a website working with a responsive design is very
useful for the user experience, and it gives you a few benefits with regard to
your visitors.
There are two main benefits in using responsive design in a
site.
First benefit: Only one website to maintain
Before responsive design was out, companies used to create
two separate versions of their sites. Besides maintaining and updating a
desktop version of the site, they had to create a separate mobile-friendly
version as well. The use of m. subdomains became as common as the use of
scripts to detect where a visitor was coming from to launch correct version. It
meant double work, double updates and double bug-fixing too when things went
bad.
Responsive design eliminates this need, making one version
of the website suitable for one and for all.
Second benefit: Increased perception of quality from visitors
Let's be honest here: if your site is not 100% flawless when
people surf it, they will never think there is a problem with their Internet
browsers. What they will always think is that you have a bad site. Responsive
design lets you manage how a site will look in smartphones, tablets, windowed
screens and maximized screens; and it will let you determine how the display
will adapt if the visitor intentionally changes anything. This adaptability
will always speak well about you, and make people think you have an amazing
website. It is a great second reason to use responsive design for your website.
Third benefit: A slight increase in performance
As responsive design can be worked in one single file, you
reduce the number of HTTP requests your visitor's browser needs to send to the
server. This improves your website's loading time, one of the few factors
Google has admitted counts for rankings and SEO.
How to start with responsive design
Starting with responsive design is not very difficult,
fortunately. There is only one "technology" to master, and it is the
use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Besides this, you need to read a little
about a new meta tag, meta viewport, and media queries, which are specific CSS
definitions that work differently according to the screen size users have. If
you can read enough about this topic, then you may be able to create one 100%
responsive CSS file with instructions for everybody, from desktop to
smartphones users, and even for those who want to print your articles if you
want.
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