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One Size Fits All
Thanks to the latest changes to the main web scripting languages, HTML5 & CSS3, and
the application of flexible grids, layouts, images and media queries, a revolutionary web
design concept was born - Responsive Web Design.
Responsive Web Design - RWD - is effectively a one-size-fits-all design. A single website
with multiple viewing options.
One Site - Multi Viewing Options
Instead of having different websites for mobile phones, tablets and PC screens, a single
website designed using RWD principles is user-friendly across
a wide range of viewing devices.
That’s right! A single RWD website can be viewed
comfortably on a variety of different viewing
platforms, including mobile smart phones,
tablets, laptops & large PC screens.
Most Website Visitors Are Now Using Mobiles
It was announced in the Spring of 2015 that small mobile devices like tablets and
smart phones are now being used in over 50% of website viewings. This makes mobile
users the largest and thus the most important target market for website owners. And as
this figure is growing fast, it is a target market that can’t be ignored any longer.
Is Your Site Mobile-Friendly?
if you only have a single website designed for viewing on a traditional PC screen, then
your website is unlikely to be mobile-friendly.
When being viewed on a smart phone for example, it will initially be viewed as an
extremely small version of your site with text too small to read. To make the text
readable, your mobile visitor has to resize it and then scroll right to read each line, and
then scrolling left for the next line.
Apart from being very tedious, frustrating and discourteous, it is an extremely poor way
to try to sell your products or promote your business and is something you really can’t
afford to ignore.
This lack of mobile-friendliness could result in mobile users bypassing your website
completely. As this is now the major chunk of site visitors, their lack of interest could
prove very costly.
Dedicated Mobile Site v. RWD Site
Of course if you already have or are planning to have a dedicated website for mobile
users, then you will be mobile friendly and will have solved the problem for mobile
visitors.
But in solving the problem for your mobile site visitors, you have created quite a major
problem for yourself. You now have 2 different websites to maintain and update, which
can prove both time consuming and costly.
But with Responsive Web Design you only have one website to maintain so you don’t
waste time and effort trying to keep 2 websites in sync and updated.
And there’s another bonus! Most RWD sites will also display better in tablets and
notebooks as well.
This website has been designed
using Responsive Web Design
principles, which means it has
been specifically designed to
display correctly on a variety of
different viewing devices,
including mobile smart phones,
tablets, laptops and PC screens.
RWD Advantages
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Single website for all users
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Mobile friendly
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Tablet friendly
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Notebook friendly
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Laptop friendly
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PC friendly
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Only 1 site to maintain
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Only 1 domain required
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Same website address
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Visible to 100% of users
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Targets mobile market
RWD Disadvantages
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Virtually none except
slightly higher design costs
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