Responsive Website Design

Before I get started with today’s blog entry (about website responsive design) I wanted to take a moment to say that this blog was started by me to share some of the most basis information about starting, promoting, and maintaining a website, even though I am not a computer professional most of the information I share is from experience and articles I have read from computer professionals. If you are a computer programming professional though, this blog is not for you, but I can use your help.

If on the other hand you sometimes find yourself in quiet celebration for having mastered yet another feature of your Windows operating system, (known by the pros as the OS) and if you know, or understand very little HTML code, welcome to my world. Much of my online website experience comes from operating my own website for the past few years, which is only about $999,800.00 short of being a million dollar website.

But  I have to admit that some of the website tips, and lessons, I have passed on, and plan to pass on in the future have been very helpful to me, so by sharing perhaps some of the articles I have done, and plan to do on the subject of “making your own website” will prove helpful to you too. It would really be nice if you let me know when something does work for you, so don’t be afraid to leave a note or say hello, now on to today’s information about responsive website design.

RWD stands for Responsive Web Design which means basically that a website with responsive design can be view on several different platforms (laptop, desktop, cell phone, tablet) equally, or with just enough alteration to still give a visitor to your website the most complete view of your web-page content. So a responsive design simply allows your website content can be view comfortably on many different viewing devices.

A long time ago in the ancient days of website design, I’m talking at least seven or eight years ago, in computer years. The website design templates I had to choose from did not include responsiveness. You’re probably smiling if you’re a computer programmer because responsive website design was probably taught in Kindergarten-computer-programming. I don’t know that for sure of course, but what I do know is that the world of computer programming looks a whole lot different to a non-computer programmer, like me.

With the display screen devices available for me back then the only futuristic change I heard people talking about were the new laptop computers which by-the-way, at that point in time, was still in my future. Today computer display screens can be found on jewelry, mobile phones, tablets thought by some to one-day make laptops go extinct. In the future who knows there may even be clothing or hats that can also display a webpage the possibilities boggles my mind anyway. Anyway, back on topic, if responsive design is the key to making my webpage content look good on any device understanding something about responsive website design will be beneficial, in my opinion.

So if you don’t have a website yet, responsive website design is definitely something you want to put on your new website checklist. If you already have a website that is already up and running without responsive website design, you might want to consider an overhaul of your website, either self-administered (done by you) or done professionally by an experience website builder you heir for the job. Having your website content able to be accessed and viewed favorable on all the different internet viewing platforms available now, and in the future, is a challenge that will keep your website user friendly in the eyes of the search engines, and your customers/clients.

The time is fast approaching when web design and responsive web design merge into the same thing, a website with responsiveness built in, so that in the future the responsive design question will no longer be an issue. For those of you who use WordPress you probably already know about the responsive website templates WordPress has to offer. I’m sure there are other examples besides WordPress but my experience has been with the WordPress website and blog templates.

If you chose to build your website from the ground up, a while ago, and are seriously thinking about not converting your non-responsive website to the more mobile friendly version, another important reason to reconsider is that Google (often referred to by me as the major search engine) now counts website responsiveness as a positive elevation factor in its rakings process. In other words: responsive website design is bumped up a little higher in Google’s rankings, compared to a non-responsive website design, because now-days more than half of internet traffic is mobile phone traffic, and responsive website design helps make your website mobile friendly.

So at the end of the day, or in this case the end of this article, how many of the website viewing platforms out there does your website respond well to? In my case I can say---most, and that I am working on making the answer to the responsive design question; all of my websites have responsive design. Because not only do I want to rank well in search engine land, I also want my website to be view favorable on Large, Medium, Small, and Micro screens.