Web Layouts for web design in East London



by James Daniels


As you can imagine, the method one uses to set up a site's layout can have a profound impact on a users experience of that site. Just how rigid or flexible your site is can impact how comfortable your user feels viewing that site and (depending on the viewer's answer to that all important question) can increase or decrease how frequently that user visits your site.

If the number of users begins to decline, one will find it necessary to go back to the beginning and see how you can make the site more user friendly. There are two main layouts and we will be taking a good look at them in this article.

The rigid design has been used since the beginning, and while it does have some strengths, it also has many weaknesses. In the rapidly-changing environment of web design, both of these layouts must be looked into very carefully.

Many web design artists in east London love working with a rigid layout system because it gives them such control over the final 'look' of the website, and that over a wide range of platforms, monitors and viewing systems. Another strength of the rigid system is that since it is based upon precise measurements, it usually creates web pages that can print particularly well.

If you have a rigid layout website a viewer's monitor resolution, for example, is much larger than your site, your site will seem to occupy a very small area in a very large amount of screen space. It's not only wasteful, but also unaesthetic. The rigid design also fails if a viewer's monitor resolution is smaller than your site - in this case, the viewer might have to scroll in both directions even to read text on your site, as well as having to manipulate any indigenous scroll bars your site might have at the same time. As you can imagine, none of this makes for a comfortable viewing experience.

The worst part of the rigid system is the fact that it is not able to accommodate the needs of mobile device users. The fluid layout can do this by its site measuring which is based upon a system of percentages rather than exact measurements.

A very popular style of web design in east London is the fluid layout. For example if you have columns on your website, rather than measuring a precise length and breadth in whatever system you choose, will instead measure a 'percentage of the available screen area'. Just how adaptable that makes your website can easily be understood. Best of all, this adaptability extends to just about any monitor resolution, and of course to mobile devices as well.

The most powerful uses of the fluid system is based around mobile devices, which allows the user to be oriented calculated upon how the apparatus is held. If it is held so that the screen is taller rather than broad, the site goes into portrait mode, adapting itself to the use. If the user changes the way the device is held, the site changes according to the orientation. Most web designers in east London would be smart to go for the fluid layout, or even settle for a combination of the two layouts.




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