Some Important Tips of Responsive Web Design

Responsive website design is about a great deal more than simply shrinking your site down so that it fits on smaller screens. Responsive Website Design makes your web page display well on all devices (desktops, phones, and tablets). The practice consists of a mixed of flexible grids and web layouts, images and an intelligent use of CSS media queries.

There are three key technical features are the heart of responsive website design:
a) Media queries and media query listeners.
b) A flexible grid-based web layout that uses relative sizing.
c) Flexible images and media, through dynamic resize or CSS.

Media Queries
Now-a-days of CSS 2.1, our style sheets have enjoyed some measure of device awareness through CSS media types for both screen and print. If you have ever hear about a print style sheet, you are already familiar with the concept:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="printfriendly.css" media="print" />

Now, you can use CSS media queries to determine styles to specific ability, applying different styles based on the ability that match your requirement.

Flexible Grids
Flexible grids have been around since the starting point of the web, and were very popular at the starting. Only when people wanted to start have better control over the design and look of the web did table and fixed width layouts become popular. Here is using CSS for positioning and for layout margins, spacing and padding, and for implementing various Website layout types in a different way. Web Layouts and text sizes are typically expressed in pixels.

Here are five points that make up a flexible grid and how to use each one.

a) Flexible Type: The most common way of flexible type is to use pixels for giving width/height/margin/padding etc.

b) Flexible Containers: But most of us learn these formula is that not only will it work on type, but this works great for our DIVs that make up the layout of the website.

c) Flexible Margins: When setting flexible margin on an element, your context is the width of the element itself. The margin is based on the width of the element's containing element.

.widget-area ul {

    margin: 10px 0 0 25px;

}

d) Flexible Padding: When setting flexible padding on an element, your context is the width of the element itself. The padding is based on the width of the element's containing element.

.enews p {

    padding: 5px 10px 0;

}

e) Flexible Images: In this concept, text will reflow smoothly within our flexible containers. One can fulfil this by scaling down oversized images down to match the container width using the following CSS code:

img {

max-width: 100%;

}
Author Bio: Sandeep Verma, Web Developer at Onkar Infotech Pvt Ltd in Gurgaon. He has experience in SEO, PPC, SMO, and Web Designing etc. Now He launched his own firm Creative Desk is a professional and established website designing company in delhi that uses effective tools and techniques to increase your brand image, organic & high quality web traffic. You can follow him on Google+.

SEO Friendly Web Design Tips

Search Engine Optimization is a method of improving the visibility of a website in search engines through organic search results, and is now a viable online marketing tool for a lot of businesses.

Optimizing Your Web Design
A website’s design does not only affect the overall user experience, but its ranking in search engines. By providing users with the best possible experience, you’ll make your site more attractive to major search engines. Developing quality content is important but it’s not the only part of your strategy that must be optimized. Displaying the content properly and get a solid hierarchy and easy navigation is the key for an effective web presence.

Keyword Placement
Keywords are an important part of any search engine optimization campaign. If you’re using the wrong keywords, search engines and your target market may never find you. You need to blend your creativity with keywords to achieve strategic placement of keywords.

a) Create attention grabbing titles with keyword density of 30-50 %.

b) Use keywords in Meta title and Meta description. Only these two elements are displayed on the search results page.

Tips for user friendly navigation and functionality
Having Search Engine Friendly Navigation basically means creating a structure that search engines can follow. If your site is easy to navigate, not only will it be user-friendly, but also SEO-friendly and ranking higher on search engine results.

a) Cordinate with the web design & development team the project specifications. Focus on the feasibility of the design and have this information in intention before creating the website.
b) Use text links instead of image links in footer to support navigation.
c) Group the content by relevance and manner descriptive menu items to that help users find easily the information that they are looking for.
d) Use breadcrumb navigation to allow users keep track referring to their location within your website and help search engines penetrate your website structure.
e) Make each page of your site accessible with at the max four clicks from homepage.
f) Avoid horizontal scroll, it is not user friendly.

Content Optimization
Content optimization is the process of transforming keyword research into live text that can influence your site’s ability to rank well in organic search results. A fine-grained strategy to engage with customers of the web, targeted with the right key phrases.
a) Too long text and/or excessive use of keywords is not a user friendly practice. In another words, it can be harmful  the rankings of the page and the image of your brand.
b) Make use of html headlines (H1 - H6) and take advantage of their importance for the search engines.
c) Make proper use of relevant images in gif, jpeg, or png formats that allow alt text support the online visibility efforts.


Author Bio: Sandeep Verma, Web Developer at Onkar Infotech Pvt Ltd in Gurgaon. He has experience in SEO, PPC, SMO, and Web Designing etc. Now He launched his own firm Creative Desk is a professional and established website designing company in delhi that uses effective tools and techniques to increase your brand image, organic & high quality web traffic. You can follow him on Google+.