When designing a new website, the first thing a business owner or marketing director needs to understand is what the user experience will be. That user experience (UX) is just as critical as your logo, business card or any other branding and visual identity that you establish offline and online.
Your website should be not only functional, easy to navigate, adaptable to different devices and pleasing to the eye. If users find it hard to interact with your website, it won’t matter if it is shiny and uses the latest technology… it will be deemed useless.
A big component of making it easy for users to interact with your website is with by integrating responsive design.
Responsive web design is a visual design and development approach that allows your website to respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. For example, your website should be designed and programmed fluidly depending on the device a user will use to view it… If they view your site on a desktop, your site will look in a specific way; if they view your site on a smartphone, your site will change visually to accommodate that new screen size without losing resolution, legibility, etc.
Years ago, businesses used to have a desktop site and then a m.site. This proved to be a hassle because of the logistics of making changes to, basically, two separate sites. With responsive design, you make a change or update and it is reflected across all devices and screen sizes.
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If you want your website to be accessible on all devices and take the user experience a step forward, it need to be responsive – that is a fact.
So, we put together four simple reasons why it is important to keep a “mobile first” approach when designing and programming your website.
Your website is your first opportunity to sell yourself and showcase your brand values. If someone is looking at your website on a mobile device and it is not optimized to be responsive, they will most likely leave your site right away.
A website that works seamlessly on mobile shows that you’re invested in your brand and, more importantly, in your audience and website users. On the contrary, a website that only works on desktop makes you look amateur and that you don’t care about your constituency.
Well-designed landing pages are good to boost conversions… however, websites that work across all devices are almost guaranteed to help you reach more customers and increase your profit.
Responsive design could be the difference between hundreds of new conversions or driving people away forever.
If you want to rank, the best way is to do your SEO organically. This means an onsite and offsite strategy. When we say “onsite” we mean your actual website.
Responsive design can help your SEO in various ways. Here are a few:
The bottom line is that might be losing opportunities if your website is not responsive. It has to do with user experience, branding, reach, SEO and more.
At first glance, you may think that designing a great website for your business is just about the looks or just the content. However, while these factors are important, there are many other components that need to be considered to launch a successful site.
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