Posted on December 16, 2014 by admin

Adaptive Versus Responsive Web Design

Smartphones and handheld devices like Tablets and iPads are changing the InfoTech world drastically. The challenging task in this age is to maintain the quality of the IT product. The compatibility with all the new upcoming tools and techniques is very important now.

The web designers are the major affecters of this revolution. The most important issue is to make the web design compatible in all the computers and browsers. At first, the website design companies face these problems when all new technologies normally start and create new issues. The Web Design Company has to build a team of experience and authority on different techniques. Two of the major techniques are adaptive web design and responsive web design.

Adaptive Versus Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design

The responsive websites open in small, medium and large screens or we can say on different resolutions in the same style. The smart phones have low resolution while tablets have medium and laptops and desktops have high resolutions. The screens are also adjusted on different resolutions on different computers. When we talk about the web design firms, they also prefer to make the design responsive because only one screen designs and it opens on every resolution by adjusting itself.

The working of responsive web design is not as easy as in adaptive technique. All viewports are to be considered in it simultaneously. The designing becomes difficult when you are working with the development team so better approach is to make the viewport of medium resolution design first and after that low and high resolution view ports considered in it.

The responsive web design has some drawbacks also. It takes much time to load on the system as it has to load its images and scripts on different devices as a single viewport. Sometimes, you don’t need to load all the information as it happens in smartphones. But RWD does not care of it and uploads all. The other issue is the disturbance in the advertisement model. The banners and other features lose their effects in the website. The compatibility issues are also present in responsive web design.

Adaptive Web Design

Adaptive web design technique is different as a number of different designs are made in it. This technology is popular also among the designers because the short comings and deficiencies of RWD are not here. You have no need to compromise on content and context in it. So the method of pre-defined screens is capturing the market. But the purpose of both the techniques is to give the proper view to all users at different resolutions.

When we talk about the working, the design of adaptive technique is bit easy. You have to design multi view-port and after that, development starts. A simple way is to make a viewport of smaller size and then move towards high resolution. You have to make at least three viewports for mobiles, tablets and high resolution screens. In this system, the basic concept to show content and context clear.

Adaptive web designs affect the cost of the projects as the designer has to work more in it. More than one screen is designed in it. So with the increase of screens, the complexity increases. For SEO, it becomes difficult as there are different addresses for mobiles and websites. Linking also becomes difficult as different versions are to be used in it.

ESP Interactive Solutions is working as a web design company in Bay Area from last many years. Both adaptive and responsive web design techniques are being used by the experienced designers. Capability of delivering designs is very important for web design firms and ESP Interactive Solutions have this capability.

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