Having a responsive web design is no more optional, it is mandatory.
In 2018-2019, it’ll surprising to see a website that’s not responsive. But yet, there are many such websites.
In this blog post, I will be sharing 5 best tools to create and test responsive web design. But before that, as usual, let’s take a look over the importance of having a responsive web design.
Below are but some of the major reasons to have a responsive design, especially if you have an ecommerce website.
BENEFITS OF A
RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN
GOOD FOR USER EXPERIENCE
Having a responsive design will definitely enhance the users experience on your website. You mobile users won't require to zoom-in each time they need to read any information.
GOOD FOR SEO
Did you know that having a responsive website will increase your chances of getting top on search engines? Search engines like Google love responsive websites.
MORE AUDIENCE
More than 70% of the users are browsing internet on their hand-held devices such as mobiles. You get more users retention when you have a responsive website.
SOCIAL MEDIA
If you want to leverage the social media traffic for your website, make sure it is responsive. More than 80% of the users spend their time on social media using their mobiles.
5 Best Tools For Responsive Web Design
#1 Bootstrap
Bootstrap is one of the most popular front-end component libraries. You can build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with Bootstrap.
Bootstrap is an open source framework for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS.
Get started with Bootstrap here
#2 Google Mobile-Friendly Test
Google provides a free tool to test responsiveness of a website.
Using this tool, you can analyse how easily visitors can browse your website on their mobile devices.
Check your website’s responsive using Google tool
#3 Gridset
Gridset is a paid tool (plan starts at $9 per month).
Gridset enables web designers to set up layout grids for a website without having to worry about the calculations of different elements.
#4 Browser Stack
You may have hear about browser stack platform that allows you to test cross browser compatibility of any website. In other words, you can analyse how your website will look on different browses.
Fortunately, Browser Stack also allows you to view your website on various browsers of different mobiles like Android, iOS & Windows.
Check this tool here.
#5 Am I Responsive
As the name suggests, this tool helps you to check the responsiveness of your website. This tool is free to use.
Check it out here.