Best practices for responsive web design and development

If you want to design responsive web site then you are in the right place. Web technology is a very emerging trend in these decades. Website is the first impression of every business so it’s so important to follow the best practices at the time of development.

In today’s fastgrowing online world, Website with attractive user experience, creative web design aren’t just sufficient things for every business, they are a basic necessity for website development. Therefore today we will focus on the best practices to be implemented at the time of web designing.

Responsiveness as the name suggests, responds to user’s different viewport, device or platform.  The variation in the device and browser the website is growing larger. It’s too important to follow best practices that can adjust to any device screen size.

When we are thinking about different devices the features and capacity is also different so we need to focus on the following points:

Website speed – Different devices have different processing capacity so in order to respond quickly on the device, the speed of a website is more important. The website always needs to be quick to load which will make the website compatible with every device. Speed of the website depends on the website content and file which loads in the browser.

Following are the best practices which are needed to be considered at the time of website development.

• Optimize CSS and JS files - Website code should be reusable which made the file size smaller.
• Gzip - Add gzip to the website which reduces the size of the file sent from the server.
• Caching – Enable caching of the website so it will reduce the response time and make the website fast.
• CDN (content delivery network) – CDN boosts the speed of the website by caching content in multiple locations around the world. CDN servers are typically located closer to end-user than the host server or original server.  

Responsiveness of images –Images is a major factor and can make or break a website. There are so many ways to make the images responsive.

•  Using CSS property - We can make the image responsive by setting max-width using percentage. 

 

But this feature has a downside too. If image size is 3780px and our image container size is 700px then it takes more time to load image and website contain more images which make the site very slow. We can overcome this issue in the next point.

•  Different use image sizes using the srcset attribute –We can add different size images in one single HTML tag using srcset attribute.  We will use this attribute to tell the browser about different image sizes. 

Call to action button – CTA should be easy to find on the website. CTA click action buttons are used to guide users for your goal conversions. It’s one part of the website where the user needs to click in order to take click you want them on the button . To create an effective call to action button that grabs user attention, follow the best practices which are as follows:

• Stop designing the page, start designing user flows - as per the conversion sciences team, mobile CTA organized according to their priority. For example on the eCommerce site, you should order these call to action button like: “Continue shopping “, “View cart” and finally “checkout “. The order should be followed by eye movement from top to bottom. This Design flow allows us to create a positive user experience and profitable for the business.

• Styling component -Purpose of the button can be anything, but it needs to be more highlighted and attractive. The designer has many reasons to style button but the end-user perspective is more valuable. The standard buttons are easier to locate on every device. 

Above are the best practices to make responsive & Interactive websites. We at Iengageit, believe & follow the same practices and that's the reason we have a large number of happy & satisfied clients who trust us & in return we favour them back with customized software services. We at IengageIT listen to client requirement & understand the business, its need & its goal. we provide customised services & we bring value to our client & their business. We have experienced professional staff who always comes up with innovative ideas to help the business grow.