It is a given fact that most people, today, use a mobile to access websites. Tablets are also mostly preferred by students for the task of note taking etc. It is much more preferred than the non portable PC. So designing websites for the mobile has almost become a necessity. Making a website for a mobile, with the help of a responsive web design, automatically takes care of the different aspects of mobile. This means that you do not have to configure the properties separately for both mobile and desktop version of the website.
There are certain different benefits of the using adaptive web designs which include:
- They eliminate the need to add different website visitors with different URL’s, using different devices to access the website.
- With different URLs, it becomes difficult to maintain multiple different sites. It can even add to the costs as well.
- It eliminates the need to design different websites for different devices.
- If you need to bring about any changes or modification on any of you web pages, you can do it with responsive web designs. People, not using it, may find themselves having to change multiple websites or pages just to modify a single page or website.
- There are also certain consequences or bad points of using a responsive web design which include:
- Sometimes the web design actually leads you to download certain extra markups which are not necessary. These extra markups only result in extra cost and a waste of space.
- Rather than just adjusting and reformatting the existing website with the help of responsive web design, making and providing a whole website for a mobile device is much more advisable and suitable.
- The websites that are made for mobiles have proved to be more efficient and responsive than the ones made or re-formatted with the help of responsive web designs.