The future is here and there’s bound to be more mobile phones than people. With the internet and mobile technology spreading like wildfire, responsive designs are fast becoming a necessity rather than a marketing strategy. In order for a business to thrive it is imperative that it is found – EVERYWHERE especially on the fingertips of the user. An embarked enterprise should also be obtainable to the potential buyer. A web design company today focuses on user-centric designs that are pleasing and engage a prospect. A continuous practice has made this redundant with nothing out of the ordinary. Mobile phones and small-screened devices that network with the world created the new challenge discernability. This paved the way for the evolution of responsive web designs. And so developers mastered flexible grid layouts. The whole expanse of technology at their disposal, web development services by 2016 started innovating advanced design techniques that can help transform businesses into a visible format.
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Improved Performance:
The top of the page requires HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to get fast performances for the first response from the server. The <head> has crucial CSS content in it when the HTML is loaded. To gain speed the <head> remains about 200 lines and the rest of the content at 14kb payload to break the 1000ms barrier. Basic loading techniques require GZipp for files and setting expire headers for content that is static. Lazy load requires a jQuery plugin which loads images after a certain timeframe. In advanced techniques CDNs can deliver static content fast and sanctioning SPDY for http2-enabled browsers will allow parallel HTTP requests instead of synchronous. Modular content patterns can be used to load content snippets from attributes data-before and data-after data-replace.
Advanced Layouts:
Flexible grids and media queries determine the layout. One simple option is :nth-child() selector. Responsive web designs can be coded with some of the most powerful options to improve website readability. Where floats make line-wrapping, left and right side alignments, and reversibility of floated items easy and supported by all browsers, there are certain problems that can be encountered. For example, relative height, maintaining content flow and alignment adjustments can be difficult. The new and advanced layout methodologies will require the usage of display:table-cell and display:table to present content even in a CSS table. Where the display:table-cell doesn’t allow wrapping, the text-align:justify used on the grid can handle margins at breakpoint 3n+3, 4n+4 etc. The text-align:justify does not need any calculating between the margin elements and allows easy wrapping of lengthy lists of elements. CSS flexboxes are usually used as a functional fallback. It is easy to write and true vertical and horizontal centering is possible with the margin:auto. The future of grid template layouts, though, is the CSS3 grid layout template. A novice front-end developer can use it easily to change page layouts by manipulating the order of ‘bbb’ to ‘bbc’. In addition, the box-sizing:border-box calculates the width of an element and the CSS3 calc function [calc()] receives 70% and 30% responsive widths respectively.
Having sped up the browser and decided on advanced responsive layouts, in our next part, we will explore more about media queries, responsive typography, and responsive images. Watch this space for more!…
