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.
