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With the rapid increase of tablets and smartphones, and the corresponding rise in mobile search, it’s extremely important for business owners to have a website that is mobile friendly.
Today we have to take a different approach as it relates to designing a website for all users, both desktop and mobile.
Prior to so many mobile devices becoming available with their advanced capabilities to browse the web, designers were only faced with one main challenge, and that was to deal with maintaining one design for all web pages.
However, users interact different on tablets and smartphones compared to desktop and laptop computers. You have to take several things into consideration such as:
- Size of screen
- Screen resolution
- Touch screen capabilities
- Adobe flash
- Optimized markup
These things are crucial when it comes to responsive website design. If you care anything about SEO (as you should), then it is in your best interest to have a mobile-friendly website.
Website owners who have remained without mobile friendly websites have not seen the same increase in sales that mobile friendly website owners have seen.
The next step to having a successful small business is having a mobile-friendly website. Otherwise, you will be left behind as technology continues to advance. And your competitors are glad to pick up where you leave off.
Responsive Website Design
So, what is responsive website design? It has to do with designing and coding your website so that it offers the finest experience to all users, regardless of the device they are using to view your site.
This means it will be easier to read and easier to navigate because visitors can easily read the text and view the images on your site without having to pinch and scroll back and forth.
A web designer will create a responsive design to make sure that navigation elements are in place as well as screen layouts, images, videos and audio.
Using responsive website design, these elements will automatically adjust to a wide range of screens and devices.
Advantages
There are specific advantages of having a responsive design website. Some of these advantages include:
Flexibility
With responsive web design, your website is more fluid, which means that the content and images respond to the size of the screen on all devices.
Amazing User Experience
This allows users to have a better online experience, being able to access content on any website and through any device.
Easily Manageable
Instead of having one website specifically for desktop computer users and one for mobile device users, you have one website conducive to both audiences.
Google Recommended
Google also recommends that website owners change to mobile friendly websites since their algorithms have changed to accommodate this new technology. Having a responsive website can definitely lead to better search engine ranking.
Cost Effective
It is much easier to manage one website than two. And this is definitely more cost effective.
In Conclusion
In the end, if you want to stay abreast of technology, be a competitor in the online marketplace and succeed in business, having a mobile-friendly website is the way to go.
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To your success!
Ken Partain
The agility of the responsive website design really gives a lot of benefits to all business owners and users. Especially with its flexibility and compatibility with all kinds of devices that will delight the satisfaction of the users.
As we are shifting into a world where Smartphones and tablets are beginning to rule the roost in terms of connectivity, more people are searching information from their tablets and mobile phones. Having a fully responsive website is a very important factor when dealing with local SEO. It seems to me many small business are missing this factor. Wonder why? [edited by admin – link removed]
I’d love to hear others thoughts on this subject!
All the best,
Roger
Nice topic that you have discussed in you article.Responsive web design is so important in these days for search engine or for peoples….Thanks for sharing informative post.
Hello Ken Partain,
Thanks for your outstanding writing on responsive website design.
You already mentioned core benefit of responsive website design or mobile friendly website.
I just point out 1 things. According to recent research, 49% of web traffic come from mobile devices. If we have responsive website, you may target these mobile device searcher. As Google is giving priority for mobile friendly website.
So, if we consider business, we have to have responsive website and it is common trend nowadays.
Cheers
Ben
Responsive website design is really essential now a days. Different websites for different devices could be difficult for maintenance. Well, thanks for the outstanding blog!
Some excellent points here. Responsive web design is indeed a need for every online businesses these days. People don’t want to view minified websites on smaller devices anymore and so its imperative to tailor and adapt your website so that everyone, no matter what device size, gets the best out of your site.
I’m so glad responsive design became a “thing”… designing two separate websites (for desktop and mobile) in the past was such a pain. It’s so much easier to just make everything responsive!
I loved that you mentioned that if your website if more responsive, it can also become more fluid and it can be seen from any type of device. I recently started my own soap and essential oil business and I need to find an expert that can design my website so I can start attracting more customers. It is great that I read this article so I could become convinced that it is necessary to work with an expert.
Great points here. Responsive web design is indeed a need for every online business these days. keep sharing