Website Design

web-designOur Website Design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design interface design authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software user experience design and search engine optimization.

Many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although senior designers will cover them all. The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. It spiders Web designers have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.

Responsive Website Design

Responsive web design is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors).

A site designed with Responsive web design adapts the layout to the viewing environment by using fluid, proportion-based grids, flexible images, and CSS3 media queries, an extension of the @media rule.

  • The fluid grid concept calls for page element sizing to be in relative units like percentages, rather than absolute units like pixels or points.
  • Flexible images are also sized in relative units, so as to prevent them from displaying outside their containing element.
  • Media queries allow the page to use different CSS style rules based on characteristics of the device the site is being displayed on, most commonly the width of the browser
  • Server-side components (RESS) in conjunction with client-side ones such as media queries can produce faster-loading sites for access over cellular networks and also deliver richer functionality/usability avoiding some of the pitfalls of device-side-only solutions.