The advancement in web and mobile technology has increased the need to get your website redesigned. If you haven't planned yet to get your website designed to suit to latest trends, it's a high time to consider so. Getting your website designed as per latest technology is the most cost-effective strategy to stay upfront in the market. It not only saves you thousands of dollars but enhance your reputation. Here, in this article I will be discussing one of the most important point that needs to be worked out with your web designing company to ensure that you get the maximum return on your invest.
The first thing that need to be looked out if your website is compatible with all the browsers. I hope, this is something that every client must be aware of, however I should not miss the point of discussion. Basically, the website is not created equal across all the browsers and screen resolutions. There are users who still rely on the older versions of the browsers. Though IE9 is getting close to web standard compliance, but it is only available on Windows 7 machine, while Windows XP users are still clinging to IE8. The whole point of discussion is that the earlier version of IE were reported to have bad ways of displaying HTML and CSS which means that your website might appear broken if you are using the older version.
Firefox is a better bet in that matter. The latest versions of Firefox are complaint to web standards and work well with modern designs. While the older versions of Firefox falls under the same category as of the older versions of IE. The only browser that has reported to be best in this matter is Chrome which updates by itself to the newer version without asking your permission. So, designers and developers don't have to struggle to make your website look good and compatible across all Chrome versions. This is browser vendors responsibility to bring major updates to be complaint with sets of web standards which not merely promote faster response for browsing, especially graphics and multimedia, but also prevent compatibility issues.
Now, what could be the possible solution to overcome this problem. The best possible solutions to this is to design your website and test it on all the browsers to locate the problem. Apart from this, what else can be done?
1. A code can be added that directs the users to upgrade.
2. Developer can add a bit of code to the site that detects whether the application would be compatible with user's browser or not. In case, the application is not compatible, user can be presented with an option to install the plugin that displays the website using chrome standards rather than IE.
3. I think, the last option is the best option where designer should be flexible enough to design a website that works good with most of the browsers.
So before going for any web design firm, assure that these challenges should be considered.
