Responsive Website, Mobile Website & App: Understanding This Trends

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Responsive Website, Mobile Website App
Understanding This Trends
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• With technology evolution, there has been a
  constant change in terms, products and
  approaches. It can be hard to keep up with it,
  for people who have lease technology knowledge.

• The adoption of mobile devices to keep in touch,
  find information and complete transactions has
  had many companies to have a second thought while
  designing websites.

• Websites rendering to mobile devices are the
  latest trends and here are few options that can
  help Responsive design, Mobile site and Apps.

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Let Us Have A Look At Their Differences
Responsive Design

• Responsive Design basically leverages a single
  website that adjusts itself automatically on
  different screens regardless of the device it is
  being viewed on.  

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• Responsive Design is an approach to website
  development that creates a consistent user
  experience across all mobile devices.

• Responsive design as a whole is cheaper to
  develop, update and maintain. SEO in Responsive
  design can be optimized to enhance it further. IF
  there are any changes that needs to be made in
  the website, the designer would only require
  making changes to one URL which and the same will
  appended across all browsers or devices.

• Even Google prefers responsive and helps the site
  to rank higher in the search rankings.

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Mobile Apps

• Mobile apps are basically built for small devices
  like smartphones or tablets. Some apps come
  in-built depending on the OS and others are
  supposed to be downloaded for free or a little
  charge.  Apps are useful when there is
  well-defined and limited application to deliver,
  for instance, a game, train time table, booking a
  ticket, etc.

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• Apps can help dispense unnecessary clutter and
  focus on the particular transaction in hand.
  Various elements like buttons and menus are
  optimized for small screen sizes and they can be
  fully device compatible as they are made for
  specific platforms, like Android, iOS, Windows,
  etc.

• Apps need to be updated continuously to keep up
  with new hardware and operating system update
  releases.

• Hence, an app that can be easily accessed on the
  go is a great idea to encourage and engage more
  customers. Its not too expensive or complicated
  to create a simple app however a good design and
  usability are the most important factors for a
  great usable app.

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Mobile Websites

• A mobile site is a website that is particularly
  designed for mobile devices. On browsing a URL,
  the web server usually detects the device type in
  use and serves a special site optimized for that
  particular device.

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• A mobile site is often a cut down version of the
  main desktop site. Some features are not made
  available for mobile devices in order to avoid
  too much clutter and provide better user
  experience.

• Many organizations have a large website with too
  many web pages and lot of information to present,
  a mobile site in such situation is a practical
  way of reducing complexity and offering the most
  important features on a small screen size.

• A mobile site has a different URL meaning the
  cost of maintenance, updates and managing the
  site increases as it needs managing two different
  URLs.

Above mentioned are three ways of going mobile
with their advantages and disadvantages.
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