Website Design For All Shapes And Sizes

The development of devices and social media over the last ten years has made the

online world available to anyone, anywhere, and the demand for it is ever increasing as mobile technology offers better devices and connection speeds every year. People now have easy access to websites through phones, tablets, laptops, PCs, workstations, and games consoles. Due to the surmountable increase of people browsing in the net, this has produced a major challenge for web designers to enhance websites for better view results. What looks great on a desktop screen can look awful or does not even work on the 3- inch screen of a mobile phone.

How the Web is design community responding to this, and is it possible to have a great looking website that works across the whole range of devices and different screen sizes? The initial response was to start designing separate websites for each device. Therefore, if you were logging on with an iPod you were actually viewing a different set of web pages than you would have seen had you been using your laptop. However, the said option implies a lot of work, and still limits the number of devices that will provide a good view of that website. You could end up with the web designer having to produce six or more versions of the same website, and this does not even take in to account what happens when a new device, with a different sized screen, hits the shops.

A new approach is needed, one which provides a general solution both for future devices and the full range of existing devices. Traditionally, websites are unique in design and built in a fixed way, and when a device displays that site, the browser shows it as best it can. This means that when a smaller device like a Blackberry tries to show a web page that has large pictures with text wrapped around it moves the elements around and the design is often lost. Web developers recognize the device that the web page loading and viewing vary in many devices thus, to adjust the layout of the elements that make up the page accordingly. To make this work, new website design software is in play, and web designers are just getting their grips with this new approach. However, this approach will become the standard website design foundation.

The development will also lead to new thinking about page designs, as it is no longer a case of just mocking up ideas on a workstation screen and seeing what looks good. The website pages will have to look equally good whether they are seen large or small, portrait or landscape, and a single design will no longer meet all the requirements.

A modular approach is a wise choice, where each page comprises of a number of elements, arranged differently according to the device and orientation used. The web design must be flexible in a way that has not been workable until now. The industry has to come to grips with "flexible images" and "fluid grids", "media queries" and "responsive type settings. Responsive web designing is a new technical jargon of the tools that allow designers to create websites in a responsive way. The software that makes responsive design possible is already available and improving as the techniques are becoming better.

by: Sean McMans

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