Understanding the Difference between Responsive, Adaptive and Mobile-First Design

It is essential for the web designing companies and web designers to have fully knowledge about the terms Mobile-First, Adaptive and Responsive Design so that they can determine any strategy for their website designing. In this advanced and technological era millions of the Google searches are carried out on mobile devices every hour globally.

The use of mobile devices is growing rapidly in all industries including manufacturing, construction and travel industry etc. A large number of travelers start their online searches on a mobile device. Now mobile devices have become the main source of website’s traffic.

What the term “responsive design” means?

The responsive web design is a technique in which a website’s design is adjusted automatically according to the size of users’ screens. The users can easily browse one website on all devices e.g. on mobile, tablet, desktop etc.

The content, design, user interface and layout of the website will change based on the width of a browser on a device. You have not to create two versions of a website one for mobile devices and other for desktop computers. You can determine either website is responsive or not by manually zooming in and out of the browser window.

What the term “an adaptive website” means?

An adaptive website adapt to specific screen widths of smartphones, desktop computers, and tablets. Devices all have set browser widths that are widely known and enable developers to develop websites that will adhere to their specifications.

It takes time to make an entirely responsive website because it must optimally adapt to the width of every browser. Sometimes the terms “responsive” and “adaptive” are confusingly interchanged. Developers create websites that are both responsive and adaptive. However, many websites may seem responsive but are not; they may actually be a blend of both techniques.

What the term “mobile-first design” means?

Mobile-first is the design strategy while responsive is the result of a technical approach. The mobile-first concept mean that the mobile version of a website should be at the heart of the design strategy and consider the user browsing behavior and constraints on mobile devices. 

A mobile-first strategy can be challenging for web designers who are used to designing for browsing on computers because this technique is quite different from a desktop development approach. The content of website must be analyzed carefully and prearranged depending on importance and make sure that the overall design remains refined. Further content can then be added for visitors who browse on larger screens.

Initially visitors will not be able to decide either the website is a responsive, adaptive or mobile-first website. According to visitors point of view the important thing about a website, is ability to quickly and easily provide the information they need and perform the actions they have set out to do.

JavaScript Front-end Frameworks, TypeScript Skills in 2017

Web application development services are created by web developers using numerous application programs and are delivered to the user’s device through the Internet. In this era of web development the most demanded web application development skills are TypeScript, JavaScript, and component-oriented front-end web app development.

TypeScript opens the door to wider usage of other JavaScript technologies which have more flexibility and more features with front-end applications. The component-oriented JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS and React are future of new front-end development. Web Components and Polymer are the latest and commonly used front-end web development technologies.

Differences between the JavaScript front-end frameworks, Angular and React

The two most popular JavaScript frameworks, Angular and React work with different ways. React is used in lightweight consumer-facing applications like Facebook, Netflix, and Instagram whereas Angular, due to broad nature and roots in the programming language, TypeScript, is used by enterprise developers who require a very structured code base for creation and maintenance of web applications.

New, Open source JavaScript library, Polymer

The advanced JavaScript framework Polymer will make it easy for web developers to build web applications by polyfilling places where web Components are not fully supported. Web Components puts HTML in the native component model playbook and develop a common component model for all developers.

Growing Usage of JavaScript

JavaScript is so accessible, fast, and easy to write as compare to other constrained structured programming languages. JavaScript delivered results very quickly and directly. It runs almost everywhere. It runs on the server with node, in the browser, on every operating system, on mobile devices with Native Script. That fact alone makes JavaScript best choice for every project.

TypeScript Usage by Developers

The web developers should have the knowledge of Angular along with TypeScript because Angular is written in TypeScript. If the developers are expert in TypeScript and Angular then they can easily build web and native mobile applications, all using the same language.

Linux and Open Source Software Development

The future of software development is mostly depending on open source software and Linux with the rapid growth of containerization and virtualized infrastructure. Linux has developed in recent years because the cloud servers are constantly using Linux based Google Cloud and Amazon S3 and having reusable code segments that are truly portable. 

Most of the IDC’s customers are adopting cloud native and containerization strategy for their future plans. The cloud native applications are getting prominence in this advanced era of software development.The implementation of open source software on the commercial level is also crucial for the long lasting viability of open source software.

Some enterprise companies are adopting community-supported open source projects, but most of them are looking for the certainty that commercial support brings. The new software will lift installed or legacy data into cloud native applications to make these apps usable for the new business climate and for the modern cloud native application products.

 

Latest Web Development and Web Designing Trends

The advances in technology, Internet capabilities and mentality of humanity are the key elements for advancement in Web development. Web developers and web designers try newest and latest web development and web designing techniques to make websites more appealing and attractive for visitors and clients and to make business profitable.

Here are some important cutting edge web design and development trends for websites which will change the online experience in 2017.

• Virtual Reality is the emerging trend and might be a trend in the future as well which will improve in hardware and the ways we interact with the virtual environments.
• Effective transitions of images and animations are always eye-catching and grab user attentions.
  
• JavaScript and AngualrJS are the future. The people are shifting from tight integration of server-side code to JavaScript for generating HTML on browser.
• The use of minimalist design is the latest trend in web designing. The web designers remove unnecessary content and elements in a website to make the site faster to load and to give the user a more focused experience.
  
• Designing for Experience, Not Just Appearance: web developers and designers are designing future websites using interactive and engaging elements to give visitors a good and memorable experience. Parallax designs, Cinemagraphs images and Storytelling are the latest trends used by web developers and web designers to make websites appealing and keep visitors engaged.