Types of Websites

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You might have heard the term responsive website and static websites so what are they the corner of the day is where a website is just accessed from a chunky desktop sitting at home the world has gone mobile and the rise of smartphones and a boom of Internet connectivity has enabled people to access websites access Internet and hosts of Internet services anywhere from any device so you need the website to be capable of being displayed correctly on all devices with the mirror of different screen sizes basically the website should be able to adapt to the screen size it is being viewed on and this is called responsive website you don't need a smartphone or a tablet to check whether a website is responsive or not you can do it right here on your computer so let me show you an amazing website which I personally believe is a design inspiration the website is of Karnataka BSNL circle why do I say it's a design inspiration if someone can take this website and make it amazing and modern I will hands-down worship that person this website is a classic example of a website that is stuck in the early 90s you can make out the blingy stars which are showing out the important notifications you can see the jiff which is continuously changing and I'm not even able to comprehend what it's saying you can see that it's running flash which is pretty much going to be phased out in the next three years and you can see the toolbar is completely out of place this is a bad website now we can simulate the screen size of a mobile phone by changing or the size of our browser window you can see that this pretty much resembles a screen of a mobile phone a rectangle now an unresponsive website basically you would have to cite scroll to see the entire website over here and it does not adapt to the screen size this is an unresponsive website so now let us see an example of a responsive website so let me head over to Chrome again and go to the National website of BSNL that is nothing but BSNL dot oops again BSNL dot code in and you can see this is a fantastic website glorious user white space clear text beautiful iconography covering sections for the customer to take the relevant actions they have a beautiful call-to-action to download their mobile phone apps slider with animations for a lot of images over here on also a press release which basically gives out latest news and everything and a beautiful footer this website is a good website and it being one of the largest telecom companies in India would be experiencing a lot of traffic and I bet the website back end or the servers are really optimized so let's see whether this website is responsive or not again I'm gonna do what I did with the Karnataka OBS another website and I am going to change the window excellent you can see that the website completely adapted to the screen size it's being viewed on in this we are trying to simulate the screen size of our smartphone and you can see that whatever was horizontal automatically stacked up vertically and the entire menu has been condensed into something what we call the hamburger menu because it resembles a hamburger and on clicking it you can see that it creates a drop-down it's a beautiful responsive website let's try to simulate the size of a tablet and see how it behaves fantastic you can see that the headers are automatically aligning to the screen size they have and once it is being viewed on a sizable device automatically the hamburger menu is gone and a full-fledged header is brought back up this is an example of a responsive website so why should we build responsive websites well the first reason is smartphone penetration is growing at an exponential rate it is easier to get online than it was a few years ago certain design philosophies have also cropped up for example there are a lot of websites which follow a mobile-first approach they design particularly for a mobile phone the desktop version takes a sideline mobile is growing more people are going to be accessing the Internet doing stuff ordering products on their smartphone not on their laptops mobile responsive websites are the future also with the integration of various payment processes such as Samsung pay Apple pay the mobile phone is going to outgrow the desktop inconvenience portability ease of use and user experience.