Tips for Building a Good Mobile Website - K2B Solutions

A few years back, businesses were able to get away without providing mobile websites to their viewers on-the-go. During that period, only a few businesses were willing to invest their money in building mobile websites and reach their targeted customers.

But today the times have changed significantly! The demand for a good mobile website has increased with the increasing number of mobile users in this fast growing information age.

Is your standard business website meeting all the requirements of on-the-go users? No?

First, you should understand that simply having a regular business website is not just enough for doing business effectively and skillfully. In an ever increasing mobile world, it is mandatory for every business to have an efficient mobile website to reach more number of customers.

Before developing your mobile website, you need to keep some best practices in mind and use them to ensure that your mobile website is as good as it can be.

The following are the tips that help you to build a good mobile website for your business.

Tip 1 – Figure out the important information that your website viewers will probably looking for. As a mobile website has restrictions on the amount of screen space, first you need to determine what content you need to include in your website.

Tip 2 – Keep your website layout as streamlined as possible. As mobile web pages load slower than standard web pages, it is obligatory to keep the number of web pages to a minimum.

 

Tip 3 – Match your company’s branding elements of your regular website to your mobile website. This makes your user who is familiar with your regular website will have a similar experience on your mobile website also.

Tip 4 – Avoid dumping loads of information in your mobile website. Leaving white space in your website not only provides a neat and more sophisticated experience, but also ensures that the users can able to click the buttons and links properly they are aiming for.

Tip 5 – Avoid using Flash or Java in your mobile website. This is because many phones including Apple products such as iPhone's and iPod's do not support Flash. However, using Java or Flash will also make your website loads very slowly.

Tip 6 – Minimize the amount of text entry for your website users. Generally, typing tiny keywords is really troubling for mobile browsers. So, instead of making the users to type and search information, facilitate them by providing drop down menus, checklists and populated fields on your website.

Tip 7 – Avoid using Pop-Up windows because navigating between multiple browser windows is more difficult on mobile devices. However, it also makes your website loads slowly. In case, if you need to open a new browser, ensure that you alert the user so that they can able to easily navigate back to the original page.

Tip 8 – Make sure to put mobile website redirects on your website. This helps you to determine if the visitors are using a mobile device and redirect them to the mobile-optimized version of your business website.

Tip 9 – Allow visitors to view your full website. Even though you have added all the mandatory information on your mobile website, some users may need the information you have chosen not to display. So, make sure that you include links on multiple web pages, which allow the users to return to the full version of your website.

As mobile websites are a completely new landscape for most business people, designing and developing mobile websites is definitely a challenging task. On the other hand, mobile websites also give you an excellent opportunity to showcase your brand and creativity.

Hence, keeping the user’s requirements on your mind, staying true to your brand and following the above mentioned tips will help you to build a good mobile website from K2B Solutions.

 

All You Should Know About Modern Day Web Development Methodologies

In this ever-changing online world, the modern websites incredibly reflect the trends of web development industry. The internet technology has also changed due to the rapid changes in all the domains across the globe. In these days, people are expecting something novel and inventive web designs for their websites.

The following are some of the latest trends in web development: 

•          Responsive Web Design
•          Flat UI design
•          Parallax web design
•          Full screen photo launch page
•          Advanced navigation and page scrolling 

Responsive Web Design:

Nowadays, websites are designed in such a way that users can able to access the websites from any of their devices, no matter the size of the screens, orientation and the platform they use. If websites are designed to be responsive, then this web design is generally called as Responsive Web Designs or RWD.

Due to the arrival of modern mobile phones and smart phones, responsive web design has become more prominent and imperative in the web development field. Generally, a responsive web design automatically rescales a website based on the dimension of the screen being used by the users to view the website and provides a great viewing experience for them.

Flat UI design:

In previous days, web designers were engaged only on doing animations, flash designs and so on. But now, the trend has changed and the web designers have started concentrating on flat user interface design. The flat user interface design is a two-dimensional web design, which is flat and contains no three-dimensional realism.

Actually, this technology was implemented by Microsoft to its interface. And it is the first one that is against the skeuomorphic design. Unlike three-dimensional design, the flat user interface design doesn’t contain any bevel effects, shadows and other gradients. But, it has some distinguishing characteristics like flat illustrations, open spaces, sharp boundaries, vivid colors and many more.

Parallax web design:

Parallax web design is a renowned technique and it is now the most modern trend in web development because this technique provides an incident of interactive screens. Parallax web design is similar to interactive storytelling. This scrolling technology enables various figures migrating at various speed and the dimensions of the pictures are assorted based on the screen size or on the situation.

Parallax web design technology also enables pictures or characters at different velocity, hence it augments the intensity of the images and furthermore it provides experiences like animations. Moreover, this technology allows users view more than one web page by using a single window.

Full screen photo launch page:

The screen photo launch page technology is mainly used to convey a message in a website effectively. Web designers generally use this technology to convey the message in a poignant way as well as in a promotional approach to grab the attention of users instantaneously. Thus, this helps you to transform your website users into another world of creative activity.

Advanced navigation and page scrolling:

By using the advanced navigation and page scrolling web design, you can able to integrate navigation panels in your website. These navigational panels are very interactive and thus provide an effectual means of navigation to the website users.

There are some extraordinary web development technologies accessible for the web developers to attain the aforementioned web design methodologies. The technologies that can be utilized to create cutting-edge websites are CSS3, Html 5, JQuery, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc. 

K2B Solutions is a leading web design and development company in India, which offers ingenious and inventive web development solutions to clients all around the world. We have technically strong web developers who use the best 2.0 applications such as HTML5, CSS3, RSS, XHTML, Active X controls, applets, web services, web protocols, client or server-side software and many more.

Hence, we use modern day web development methodologies and provide efficient web development solutions that satisfy all the business requirements of our clients.