Html5 and Responsive Web Design: some answers for business owners

Have you notice that information is being disseminated faster than ever over the Internet and is being consumed on a large variety of devices. Desktops, PCs, tablets, smartphones, TVs and even cameras...with more in the pipeline (Google Glass...). Consumers on online content no longer view content on only one particular type of device. This dissemination of content to who-knows=what kind of device has resulted in new challenges for managers of online content.

Web design company in UAE are aware of that trends required by clients. At first, the company must analyze the client's existing website traffic by devices. This is an essential metric to understand, in order to propose the most suitable design. If this is a new website, the owner should determine where the contents will be read.

One of the essential goals for any web site owner is to reach as wide an audience as possible. In order to deliver expectations in today's online market environment, it is important to employ a design strategy that supports the wide array of devices in use for viewing online content. Responsive web design is one such approach that has received much attention in the past few years. When executed well, this approach can make your site viewable across the multitude devices on the market.

Let's make a quick test by viewing your website on a Window environment desktop, a 15" Mac Book, a iPhone 5, a Samsung Galaxy, an iPad, a Windows tablet and your TVs screen.

Responsive Web Design is the approach that a design should be flexible enough to adapt to the screen size and platform on the visiting user.

For a design to be responsive, it typically needs the following three attributes:

• Fluid Grid: a fluid grid system uses percentages to define column or div widths instead of pixels. 
• Media Queries: it enable custom CSS based on the min-max width of a browser,
• Responsive images: similar in nature to the fluid grid, responsive images don't have fixed widths but instead have a max-width. This enables images to be scaled down to fit the width of the screen on which the webpage is rendered.

Wed Design Chronological Dates

In 1991, the World Wide Web started to become what we recognize it as today with the use of Hypertext Markup Language (Html). HTML provided a simple way for web developers to place information in a formatted structure on the web and opened the door for actual page layount and information design. In 1996, we saw the first Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allowed designers to separate the actual information from its presentation, as well as the ability to reuse design elements. CSS continued to evolve, in 1998, CSS2 was released which offered definition for media types. Web standards continued to progress slowly, ad by 2007 smartphone technology was becoming more mainstream for the viewing of online content. The first iPhone was released in June of 2007, android followed in late 2008, and the iPad was released in 2010 which created a new wave of tablets and mobile viewing technology. Developers and designers were finding they needed a better way of presenting web content on these devices and the standards were not keeping up. Since 2010, many tablets, smart phones, android phones have appeared and pushed developers and designers to enter a new era.

Focus Trends

As HTML5 becomes more developed, it offers a number of advantages for businesses that are building and deploying Web content. Here are a few (+) points:

• Deployment across multiple platforms means you can develop once and use the same code in many different markets,
• Widespread familiarity with HTML among developers and web designers gives you a better shot at using your IT resources well,
• It offers more reliable storage options, including the ability to store client-side data temporarily in a true SQL database rather than using cookies,
• The development of HTML5 apps may lead to better mobile access to business intelligence in the future, because all devices with an HTML5 compatible browser will have the same ability to collect, collate and use data. 

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