What is Responsive Web Design ?

Website designs that fits on different screen size such as desktop, laptop and on all other mobile screens.

For designers responsive website is not just media queries. As a designer if you consider creating adaptive layouts is all then youre missing something. Actually the delivered product should give a positive user experience to increasing number of web-enabled devices

According to a research in the year 2013 number of website turned to Responsive website Design to bring better user experience across different screen resolutions and in the coming years it will increase.

Why Responsive Web Design?

You have a website and its not mobile-optimized website then it should be the main priority to provide better user experience as well for SEO, because if someone visit your site and if it is not optimized for their device then there is a high probability that they may leave the page and you loose your customer.

Few Points to make a good Responsive website, lets have a look

Optimize Images in Responsive Web Design

Slow loading due to Images is one of the major issues with stuffed web pages of responsive design. Particularly with the increasing number of Retina Devices, people wish for higher resolution images for the sites. To optimize images use of scripts which detects the screen size and then resizes, caches and serves a scaled-down image but make sure an image should not lose its quality or get cut off when view on a small screen resolution.

Remove less necessary Elements from small screens For improvised performance less necessary elements can remove so it may decrease the load time.

Typography

Typography is another essential aspect in responsive design. Typography that is appealing on desktop must be appearing well on mobile screens without losing the content.

Responsive Navigation

On small screens compact menus required for the website with number of links.