Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Web Layouts for web design in East London

By James Daniels


The method used to set up a web site in east London is crucial to the user's experience of the site. A flexible site is one which the user will feel comfortable with, and will be a key point as to how many times this visitor will view the site.

If the number of users begins to decline, one will find it necessary to go back to the beginning and see how you can make the site more user friendly. There are two main layouts and we will be taking a good look at them in this article.

Now the traditional way to create layouts that been handed down to us from way back is the rigid design. The rigid design has a lot of strengths, but with the rapidly changing web design style of east London it unfortunately has a lot of weaknesses too. Now, one of the main strengths of the rigid system is control.

There are many web designers in east London who prefer to work with the rigid design layout because it gives them the final 'say' about the website, and that is deemed a strength in their eyes. Another strength of this rigid layout comes about because it is based upon precise measurements and the web pages print very clearly.

Sometimes, however, that which is seen as a strength is really a weakness. For instance, if the user's monitor resolution is larger than your site, your site will end up occupying only a small part on the monitor. This is wasteful, and does not give the user the right idea of your site. The rigid design is also useless if the user's monitor is smaller than your site, thus forcing the user to scroll in both directions to get even part of your message. This is not an enjoyable viewing experience.

Perhaps worst of all (for a rigid layout website design) is its inability to adapt to mobile devices that perhaps can change the orientation of a page based upon the way in which the user holds the device. This is where a newer layout system comes in. This is the fluid layout in which measurements in the site are not based upon rigid measurements at all but rather upon a system of percentages.

A column posted on your site, rather than measuring a precise area of length and breadth, will measure a percentage of the available screen area. This makes your website more adaptable and includes almost all monitor resolutions, as well as mobile devices.

The most powerful uses of the fluid system is based around mobile devices, which allows the user to be oriented calculated upon how the apparatus is held. If it is held so that the screen is taller rather than broad, the site goes into portrait mode, adapting itself to the use. If the user changes the way the device is held, the site changes according to the orientation. Most web designers in east London would be smart to go for the fluid layout, or even settle for a combination of the two layouts.




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