8 Most Amazing Facts About Web Designing

  If you are mesmerised or annoyed with the visual appearance of a website too easily, you need to know the nitty-gritty of the web-designing process too. Being a visitor, very few people consider the back-stage scenes of a website. Different web browsers interpret code differently to display a website. User experience and user behaviour largely depend on some basic facts like loading time, browser variations, age of code and website content. Here are eight most astonishing and awesome aspects of web design which you must know:

1. Websites are rendered differently on different web browser: 

Suppose you are viewing a website on Google Chrome from your home computer and viewing the similar site on Safari on an iPhone. Your experiences are bound to differ. Well, a website looks different in different browsers because of parsing and rendering, as browsers translate code to display sites on the screen in different ways. In some browsers, the code is loaded in a specific manner while some code is not even recognised by some browsers. This browser difference fact also makes life hell for website developers who always try their best to offer a great user experience. Professional web designers are usually expert in tackling this issue as they are familiar with HTML and CSS standards.

2. Responsive web design: 

We read and browse whatever we need to know via Internet. Those websites are considered successful which maintain a clean and scannable layout with 47 per cent usability improvement. If your website is not able to provide the exact information to the visitor timely then they will definitely head towards another website. Web designers build websites in such a way that the most vital is primarily reached to the visitors. Web professionals also take help of heat maps and analytic tools to keep a check on which buttons and links are popular.

3. Age of website: 

It's very important for web designers to maintain their pace with advancements in technology. Web browsers as well as devices are always on change modes through which websites are accessed, so the design of the websites also need to be updated all the time. Latest coding standards have to be followed to stay compatible with updated browsers and search engine algorithms. If a website is outdated, then it may not be displayed properly on a particular browser.

4. Use of templates: 

Website templates are very popular among web designers though it's not a very good practice to use pre-packaged templates for building websites without any coding. If excessive templates are used the company loses credibility as templates are full of bloated code and irrelevant design elements. Some templates are also not flexible enough. So websites should also be customised as per organisational and customer needs.

5. Code appeal to search engines: 

You may be running a website which is a visual joy but the visual appearance is not everything. Web professionals need to be much more focused on the coding part which help build a user-base. The coding of the website also affects search engine rankings. Search engines are always the best source to pull in traffic for a website and the website needs to be fully optimised for the search engines. If the best coding practices are involved, it will help build a good relation with the search engines.

6. Multimedia content's impact: 

Images and videos play an important role in a website but if they are used inappropriately then they can tarnish a website's performance too. If large image and video files are used the loading time of a website gets slow and if visitors have to wait for long time to let the page loaded then they impatiently abandon it. Web designers need to use only those images and videos which are optimised for websites. Outdated multimedia formats like Flash are not preferred by designers any more. Instead, they prefer HTML5 video like current formats so that the content can be accessed across computers, smartphones and tablets.

7. Website pricing: 

A good website designs costs between $500 to $5,000. Don't be surprised as building a website requires so much brainpower for optimisation of websites for search engines, making accessible content and ensure balanced performance across all platforms.

8. Responsive design vs mobile design: 

Websites go through a conversion process when we switch between computers and smartphones. Two different approaches are followed in the two different screen sizes – mobile design and responsive design. Mobile design is more restrictive as it offers a limited version of a website only for smartphones and tablets. Responsive design is much more flexible as they allow resizing websites and recreating the layout as per the screen size.

Courtesy: Efy Times