Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design

A responsive website is a great way to make you websites comparable with any user.  they way it works is the website fits the way is should on a certain size screen.  If you view a website on a phone and it is not responsive, it will be pretty hard to navigate.  If you went on a website that was responsive it would make it easier to navigate through.  Responsive fits a website on any screen size.  Responsive web design is one of the most important thing in web design because a huge amount of people use mobile phones and tablets and all sorts of stuff.  Not too long ago people had desktops there were no such thing as a "Smartphone".  Now that there are smartphones you need to have websites compatible with the screen size.  You use things called media queries to give characteristics to a picture.  It helps a picture change size depending on the size of the screen.  The breakpoints debug the code to make it work on the website.

Here is my example of a really good responsive website.

http://morehazards.com

Mobile and Desktop Users

Mobile and Desktop Users 2012 - 2015

From the years 2012 to 2015 the percentage of desktop users went down 5%, it doesn't sound like a lot but but that is 40,000 less people that logged into it on a desktop!  The mobil sessions on the same website went up about 22,000 sessions through the years.  There are still though more users that check this website out on a desktop.  But I would say by the end of 2016 there will be more users on the phones than the desktop.  

I looked up what a bounce rate is, the definition that I found was a bounce rate is the percentage of viewers on a website who left the site after viewing one page. On the Olathe Northwest Ravens website the bounce rate was always the highest on the mobile site probably because they just need one thing when they go on mobil, like an address, or a phone number.  We are on the same track as the rest of the country mobile phone wise.  

Most of the websites that I have found say by this year there will be more mobile users than desktop users on websites.

http://www.smartinsights.com/mobile-marketing/mobile-marketing-analytics/mobile-marketing-statistics/

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/opinion/2353616/mobile-now-exceeds-pc-the-biggest-shift-since-the-internet-began

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/28/technology/mobile/mobile-apps-internet/

Changes to the Blog

As you can See I made many changes to the blog.  I made the change of changing the header rom the default to my own.  I changed the favicon, to my logo.  I went in to the CSS and changed some things.   I made gadgets to go on social networks and follow me.  You can look at the banner I made to go into the blog.