Wednesday 29 October 2014

Why Responsive Web Design Is The Cornerstone To Any Mobile Strategy

In 2010, Chris Anderson of Wired magazine and Michael Wolfe said in an article: The web is dead. Long live the Internet.

Now his words are finally coming to pass. CNN reported earlier this year that the use of mobile Internet has finally taken on PC and browser use in the United States. This means that more people are accessing the Internet via their phones and tablets instead of using their laptops and desktops. The total Internet usage on mobile devices browsers hit before, but this was the first time he had taken applications browsers.

So what does this mean for websites? Basically, more people have access to the web on their phones and tablets, these little screens that can not be compared to a monitor. Therefore, sites must be equipped to shrink and grow depending on where the user is.

So far, designers have taken two approaches to this problem. Some are doing the sensible website design, which uses the same location on all devices. Other designers are turning to two sites: one for a browser and one for a mobile site.



Our Lord's way Decrees Google

Google has a lot of influence when it comes to search marketing strategies. The company has a market share of 67 percent of search, more than half of all traffic from search engines via the web. When our Lord Google speaks, everyone listens and obeys.

Google has advocated for sensible web design and recommended configuration for mobile application (app). The company also says that the sensitive web design is, in fact, the best industry practice.

So why is Google so strongly advocate for responsive web design? It is because these types of sites are one and the same HTML URL, none of which changes regardless of the device used. This makes Google work much easier, and crawling, indexing and organizing information and content. If sites have different URLs and HTML browsers and applications to coding directions, Google has to crawl and index them as different versions, but all are still the same place.

Multiple sites also reduce your SEO. Imagine a user shares a link to your site in the Facebook application. A browser user then clicks on the link. The link will be the site of application, not the browser site fully flushed out, it can be very different from the browser page. Users may strongly prefer one over the other. As Google now has the user experience when ranking sites, this could seriously harm your SEO.



One for all and all for one

Having the same design on all types of computers, phones and tablets means that users will be able to rely on access, quality consistent regardless of the type of device they are using.

This is especially useful for you customers using multiple devices throughout the day. If your site looks different on phones and computers, the user may become frustrated or angry when they can not find what you need or where they were before.

This also prepares you for the future. Apple releases new versions of iPods, iPhones and iPads almost every year, which means screen sizes can shrink or grow. Phone popular Samsung Galaxy has also grown in size of the screen on the latest models. If you have a sensitive design websites, you will not have to worry about matching these screen sizes, maintaining the quality of your site.
Less time spent managing

If you have multiple sites, you'll have to have separate SEO campaigns. It's hard enough managing a site, but can you imagine customizing two sites and two seasons? What works in a web browser could not work on a mobile site, especially if it is long-form content.

This is easily the biggest advantage of designing websites that answers across multiple sites, but you should have a mobile SEO strategy that adapts to the keywords most likely to be searched for in a smartphone. Think "on the fly" kind words.

It is clear now that has two sites is holding you back and injure your SEO so the best thing to do is to create the web site design response, but this requires some extra programming and coding work. Read on to learn our top tips for creating the best design for your company.



Show the Best, the Rest Hide

We talked about how important it is to design your website in the form of multiple screens. It also helps to hide the irrelevant content and to highlight the most important aspects of your site. Now let's talk about how to achieve this.

You can easily hide the content by adding the contents of the CSS property. This will allow conceal a block of content by narrowing down the view according to given width.
Collapse Your Content

You can also narrow down your content to best fit the screen. Rather than hide the content, you can collapse into place.

To do this, you can hide the content, apart from the header. Then allow the user to have the freedom to tap or click in the header to display any of the content that was hidden. They can click again, and the content is hidden again.

You need both CSS and JavaScript to make it happen.

Wednesday 22 October 2014

The Grid Website Platform Automatically Adapts Design To Make Your Content Shine

Are electrical designers dream websites? Web contents You can know itself? The grid, a startup in San Francisco, they are changing the way websites are designed fundamentally changing the role of the designer. This new platform uses machine learning is combined with design and flow based on constraint-based scheduling to dynamically adapt the form to content. To understand how this revolutionary technology is, you have to compare with how most websites today are made.

Barriers to entry for web design keep getting lower. From WordPress to Squarespace to "no code" website builders drag and drop designer's life seems to be getting easier. Only it is not.

By simplifying all the tools, the complexity of the web environment is growing like kudzu. Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, clock and eventually 4K TV screens-the number of destination is dizzying. The most common way to deal with this mess of pixels practice is to use templates and design response for the same flow of content (many) different size containers.

This is an effective strategy compared with building websites tailored for each target device. Ethan Marcotte (the designer who invented the term "responsive web design") and Karen McGrange (content strategist who has championed the concept of "adaptive content" to flow sensitive designs) well packaged this concept for the enterprise market . What has always attracted me for the approach response (or RWD) is trying to reduce its assumptions about the user of your site. Like the movement of web accessibility and web standards (led by Jeffrey Zeldman) from which it evolved, RWD implies a Zen detachment pixel perfectionism.

The problem with these approaches is that there are only so many pixels to perfect! It involves a lot of work to conceptualize and test every possible permutation. This sounds like a job for computers!

Dan Tocchini, CEO and co-founder of the network, has a high level of design and code. His team includes Brian Axe, a former product manager of Google AdSense, Henri Bergius, a pioneer in the engineering of open content management code and Leigh Taylor, former lead designer on Medium. In the new platform used responsiveness own code to simulate real process designer. The results as you can see in the picture below, they are very sophisticated.

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As with responsive web design, this is the code in service design. Unlike RWD, The Grid figures things difficult for you.



Most of the network coverage so far focuses on the tactic of using artificial intelligence (AI) to create the company web sites. I think this may be only half true, but does not diminish the importance of what is building this team. To be technical, I think that the grid uses a lot of machine learning (ML) for users to perceive the process of design and artificial intelligence.

This difference may seem subtle, but important. The true AI is emerging. A contemporary artificial intelligence system not only perform sophisticated combinations of rules-invents new rules. I have not yet seen any evidence that the "filter design" (as The Red calls its version of content management "themes") are fully capable of spawning new filters. To see what these filters are capable of (which is considerable) we will see for the first time in color.

One of the interesting things you can do with the network is to create a restriction that will generate the color of a text box to go with each photo you upload. On the inside, the grid measures the color data of image and calculates the values for a perfectly tuned panel. The effect is that the photo is combined with a pleasantly box in color with no two being exactly the same. The role of the designer is to establish the restriction. One would choose the average color of the image, or a shadow 50% of that color or a complementary shade of whole color.

This is just one way that the data on the content of the reports that display the content. Another related feature scans the color of an image to identify areas of low contrast. The software can then use this geometry suggest optimal position for the text boxes color-keyed on top of the photo itself. Again, the designer creates the filter and specify what type of data can be controlled display settings. But for the non-technical user, everything is magic.

Take another example that solves one of the most pressing problems and time-consuming for contemporary web designers. For each of these different screens for design, images need different sizes and shapes. And 2x and retinal images 3x now, the image stack gets pretty deep for every bit of content. Finally, there is some commonality in terms of the new html image element, but that only defines what image is loaded in the format of the screen, not what those images are.

The grid solves this problem with some sophisticated algorithms. The not only to crops and resizes all necessary images, solution also recognizes features in an image (eg a face) and these features properly positioned within the frame of each image on the screen. For a simple example, imagine you have an image with a figure standing places a third of the distance from the right edge. A simple linear function would be to keep that proportion in all sizes and shapes of the images. (You might consider this AI rule-based rather than ML because there is no mechanism for adaptation.)

But what if the designer of a page filter observes their behavior and realize they do not always follow strict linear consistency when re-crop images from the web? Instead of a linear rule, the designer could provide some sample image sets as learning training data and the use of teaching machine to make the filter more nuanced adjustments to each image.

When the simulation of the human may be more critical is the own choice of content. If the software can automatically tune the shape with the content, then it is the choice of the content itself that becomes the only generator design. The grid has some automation features in this area also. Press release from the company says that users can "Collect pictures and text throughout the internet through a browser or a mobile extension to incorporate into your site." This is very convenient and will further reduce production time.

There is a possibly harmful content with this automation aspect, however. Part of the pleasure of looking at Tumblr, for example, is trying to imagine the person who posted this very particular content. What if that "person" is an algorithm? By combining web scraping tools and scripts, it is certainly possible to create "content filters" that analyze large amounts of data and select the output highly particularized. This may be where the promise of the Ritual of artificial intelligence kicks in-but also it could be derailed. It will be interesting to see how the balance of ease of flow against identity assurance platform evolves over time.