Why Do You Need Drupal Responsive Website

Depending on their ability, web designs can be broadly categorized into standard, adaptive and responsive designs. Generally, designing custom theme requires knowledge of HTML and CSS as Drupal websites is driven by themes. Google in its recent webmasters forum proclaimed that responsive web design as one of the best approaches for multi-device sites.

Having said so, here we shall see how Drupal Content Management System can implement responsive designs.

Why Drupal Responsive Web Design is a Necessity

All that matters in ecommerce website development are attractiveness, informative, and user-engaging in order to put its best foot forward in the online dimension, and enhance online visibility.

There is always a debate to building and maintaining separate desktop and mobile websites. From the online marketing and SEO point of view, it involves twice the efforts, cost and time investment. Plus, the different versions of tablets and smartphones in and around 200 screen sizes urges you to make it optimized for all which is notably not possible.

This is when Responsive Web Design becomes a necessity where one fluid design becomes the very notion of developing and maintaining over 200 websites suiting all present and future screen sizes. Moreover, Google encourages responsively designed sites to imply higher search rankings and provide uniformity to your website, irrespective of the device that it is being viewed from.

So...Identify Breakpoints

A breakpoint in Ecommerce Website Design refers to a point where the display changes based on the screen size. So, firstly you’ll need to identify your break points and have a design for each  breakpoint. Recommend having at least three different breakpoints to cater for notebook/desktop, tablets, and mobile phones. This goes a long way in creating a strong and consistent brand image in the minds of your customers.

 

To Sum up, the “fit to all” design sometimes becomes a constraint for ecommerce businesses but definitely it is a force to be reckoned with today.