subject: Thinking Of Making Your Website Tablet-friendly: Heres What You Can Do. [print this page] Have you made your website Tablet Friendly? With the advent of tablet revolution, it has put many website designers in a fix. They are rethinking on their website design and its layout.
Previously websites were made keeping in mind the desktops and laptops. After the invention of Smartphones everything changed. Now most of the website owners prepare themselves for the mobile version of their website for any visitor who wishes to go to their website through their Smartphone. However, now your website has got to be changed again, this time its for the tablet holders. This article will explore on the importance of why your website should be tablet friendly, and list of all the Dos and Donts for the same.
The trend of Tablet has grown overnight.
Why is it Important to Make Your Website Tablet Ready
The tablets are very much in trend these days. Now people like to use internet through mobile devices rather than by using personal desktops. Have you given a thought about it? Have you ever visited a website through your smart phone only to recognize that its not effective and navigation is very difficult to do? Did you stay long on the website? Or did u return back to that website? Applying the same logic, now analyze the situation from the tablet users point of view. What will they do if they go through the same situation, how will they react? With the constant increase in the consumers using the Internet through their tablets, its important that every Web Designer should spare time to update their website as soon as possible.
Dos and Donts for Creating a Tablet Ready Website
After realizing the importance of creating a tablet friendly website, lets take a look over few Dos and Donts. To begin with here are some Donts.
If you apply the following logic, than unfortunately your website will not be tablet ready:
Dont incorporate Flash if you desire your website to run on iPad.
Dont contain a lot of clickable areas (links, etc.) next to one another. Make your navigation easy and interactive keeping in mind your target audiences.
Dont include too much of media to overdo your website. Images and videos are cool, but a lot of them makes the web page look very messy and can cause big loading issues.
Following these few tips will help you make your website tablet friendly. So heres what you can do:
Have a look of your website from a tablet. Doing this will help you in realizing the hang ups, the good points and the bad points. By having an overall experience you will be able to brainstorm ideas for bettering the functionality of your website on the tablet while not compromising its functionality on laptops and desktops.
Enhance your on the go content and information. The best part of the tablet is that they are very portable and can be taken anywhere with you. So therefore they are in search for more portable or mobile-related content.
Confirm that your font is easily readable from a tablet. Not all the websites are compatible to work on tablet. Generally laptops and desktops are set up and used in well lit areas. As tablet being mobile, lighting is going to be an issue for tablets. Therefore make sure to renew your website font style, color, and size according to the tablets.
