{"id":7010,"date":"2016-11-24T15:56:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T10:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmatec.com\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:13:04","slug":"using-responsive-design-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmatec.com\/learn-technology\/using-responsive-design-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Why\u2019 & \u2018How\u2019 of using Responsive Design for your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

A responsive website allows the website content and the web pages to be flexible and fluid by default, across devices of various different screen-sizes and resolutions. This implies that regardless of the device in use, a responsive design delivers the most optimized viewing experience that comprises of smooth navigation with no significant scrolling and resizing needed.
\nWhen you assign the task of creating a responsive website design to your web designers, it means that they are supposed to set all the screen layouts and the navigation and UI elements of your website to automatically readjust themselves according to the devices used. This primarily eliminates the need to have two different versions of the website i.e. the mobile site & the desk-top site.<\/p>\n

Basic principles of Responsive Web Design<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1)<\/strong> Responsive design is not just for mobile devices\u00a0 It is a general perception that responsive design is all about accessing your website on mobile devices. To an extent, it is true but more than just that, a responsive design helps the users access the same great content with a consistent ease across all possible devices. All it is focused on is offering the best possible user experience for your website. This means there is no more a need to plan a different content strategy for different devices used to view your website.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Responsive designs are based on the principle of flexibility, which means a fluid website to go well with any device \u2013 mobile, tablet or desktop of different screen sizes and resolutions. These make use of flexible grids, media queries, responsive images and videos to be able to create a consistent user experience based on its responsiveness and flexibility to many factors.<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> While both adaptive & responsive design, strive to optimize users\u2019 experiences for various devices for different resolutions, usage contexts, viewport sizes etc., adaptive design is basically part of the progressive enhancement in the modern day terms. It is an advanced method of imparting responsiveness to the website by detecting the device & delivering suitable features and layout according to the already assigned set of viewport sizes and other features, whereas the responsive design resolves with just one flexible design.<\/p>\n

Things to consider while building a Responsive Web Design<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Here\u2019s a list of things you should consider when you are building a responsive website for your business:<\/p>\n