With the advent of smart mobile technology, it has become increasingly important to pay attention to what web sites look like in smaller resolutions which fit mobile screens. Recent studies show that by 2014, more than 90 percent of internet users will be accessing the web through their mobile devices. This is why it is essential for web designers and developers to optimize their design concepts to feel natural on mobile displays. In this article, we’ll try to give
you a couple of tips on what to bear in mind when you optimize your web site design for mobile viewing.
The first thing to think about is that most of the popular smartphones are touch screen, which is why your design has to be touch friendly. Large buttons which can easily be pressed with a thumb or the rest of the fingers are a must. Instead of text links to the website’s pages, think about field boxes which could serve the same purpose but would be so much easier to interact with in the touch screen environment.
Then there is navigation. Screen real estate on smartphones is very “expensive” - you don’t have too much of it and you need to find a way to utilize it as best you can. Vertical scrolling is something that you won’t be able to escape from (horizontal scrolling is also an option, but make sure you don’t use both), however, your most important set of options should always be near the top of the page.
Relevant content is necessary for every successful website. But when you are optimizing yours for mobile phone use, it is crucial that you put important things above the “fold”, that is, above the place after which it is necessary to scroll in order to see the content. This way you will be sure that the visitors see what the website offers as soon as they land on the homepage, which is very important given the fact that most of the visitors will not have time or patience to search around too much.
The last thing we’ll talk about in this article is contrast. Maybe it sounds trivial on the first thought, but if you think about it, it becomes clear why it’s important to think about it. Mobile phone users are on the move, and during their day, they access the internet on the subway, in cafes or while they are walking the street. If the color scheme of your website does not pay attention to the contrast between the interacting colors, the website might not be viewable when the viewer’s screen is exposed to broad daylight.
All in all, creating a web presentation which looks good on all devices is a very hard task, especially if we also consider the need to provide the same content that the desktop website features. This is why the best tactics is to find a middle ground and make compromises which will balance your design between useful and pretty to look at.
by FigyTech, Cape May mobile app developing comapny
