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10 Responsive Web Design Tips to Make Your Site Mobile Friendly

In today’s digital era, many people visit your Website through their tablets and smartphones. If the
design of your Website is not responsive and mobile friendly yet, you may be losing a large number
of visitors. Hence, it is advisable to apply responsive design to your Website.

Following are ten important tips to design impressive responsive Websites:

1.Start with a Mobile First Approach

Design the mobile site first and then, build the tablet and desktop designs. Once the text is easy to
read on the mobile device, there will be no issues with tablet or desktop.

2.Make Proper Planning of Content

The very first content planning needs to be done for designing responsive Website, regardless of
what device it is being viewed on. One needs todecide the order of content appearance on each
page at the smallest browser width.

3.Build the Layout of Your Site First

Later, build the entire layout of the interface and then send it for coding. For mobile site layout,
buttons should be large enough for a fingertip. Keep the Website design simple and functional.

4.Say ‘NO’ to Navigation Menus

As responsive Websites target smaller screens, hide the main navigation menu. For main menu one
can show combined icon or text. Even simple drop-down menu can be used. If your Website
comprises only 2-3 navigational menus, you can accommodate these in a simple menu. If there are
more than three menus, then you can create a single icon that opens into a drop-down menu.
5.Try to Use Multiple Software Programs

To build a complex Web design, one should use custom programs and code for each site. For
building a complex Web design, only template with WordPress will not be sufficient. If your layout is
up-front, use a template such as ‘Moboom’. In addition, for a complex layout, use standalone
program such as GoMobi.

6.Breakpoints

Commonly, the idea ofresponsive designingis that breakpoints should be based on common screen
sizes. However, by designing for specific device resolutions, full potential of responsive design is not
accepted. It is centred on fluidity, adaptability, and flexibility. Good practice is to take a device
agnostic approach and set breakpoints as per the content of site. You are required to explore your
design to find out the points where it naturally breaks down.

7.Create Optimized Images

Optimized images need to be created for each layout while building responsive design layouts.So
bandwidth and scaling issues can be reduced. Always try usingJPEG, PNG-8, and GIF formats. Never
use PNG, as it can increase your files sizes by 5 to 10 times.

Use precise measurements for images and set image dimensions to match. It will preserve the
resolutionand quality of images.
8. The Need for Speed

Slow loading of Website is one of the hindrances of responsive Web design. Expected time for a
Website loading is under 4 seconds.

Non-optimized images is one of the major reasons behind slow loading of Website. Heavy images
should be scaled down using tools such as AdaptiveImages and TinyPNG. Also, removal of excessive
elements will speed up the loading time. In addition, too many elements make your Website look
cluttered.

9. Make it Readable

Text size should be large enough to read easily on smaller screens. A text size of 16 px, 1 em, or 12 pt
is recommended. Use a tool like FitText for designing headlines.

10. Design for Screen Orientation

You should design your Website to look good on both landscape and portrait orientations. Take care
of landscape orientation as in this orientation there are chances that images look stretched.

Responsive design of Website makes it simpler for all the users to view your site regardless of what
device they are using. To create rich responsive Web designs, huge amount of efforts and time are
required. Keeping in mind these ten easy-to-follow techniques will make your responsive Web
designs perfect.

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