On our last post, the topic was about “mobile responsive design websites” or simply why making your website “responsive” is important in today’s internet marketing. There we have discussed the main points to why having a responsive design website help you gain traffics and views, in proportion with the fact that most internet users are using their mobile devices to surf the web.
So for today’s topic, we’re going to give you the basics on how you can create a responsive design website, or better transform you’re current working website into a responsive one.
• Install a Responsive Website Theme in WordPress
For anyone who’s using WordPress as their website platform, then you don’t have discern the CSS codes and changed everything just to make the site responsive. All you have to do is to pick from the variety of mobile responsive theme available in WordPress, and install it on your website. However, if you don’t want to purchase a theme then you can install a plugin called “WP Touch”, which transforms your non-responsive website to a responsive one. It works for most themes and uses a standard layout/design for all sites.
• The Use of Media Queries
Another way to transform your site into a responsive one is to add media queries to your existing design. This means that have to add a code in your site’s stylesheet that tells the browser how to display your website in different resolutions.
• Check the Image-Based Headers
The thing about responsive website is that if your site has an image header, it will not appear accordingly as to what it looks in your desktop PC when you’re using a mobile device. This means that it image headers will not display optimally on all devices. To solve this problem, you should be able to fix it through coding the header and repeating the similar media query code to your header’s CSS code.
• Ask Help from the Experts
If you don’t really have an idea on how to make your site “responsive” then it is time to ask the experts for help. In short, you can always hire someone to do this job for you and avoid the hassle yourself. This is indeed a wiser decision especially if your website has a complicated design coding compare to the static pages.
There are several website programmers that you can find in freelancer websites or better, there are companies that offer internet marketing services which include checking your website design to transform it to a responsive layout.