How Important Is Front End and Design for Your Web Application?

“First impression lasts long! When a user lands to any web application, the first page or landing page should not only be informative but also attractive to make the user stick to the application; else it may result in a bounce. So, your website must be attractive enough with proper colour combination, back-grounds, images and visual effects for excellent web experience. In the competitive environment, where there are millions of websites available in internet why does a user visit your page? An obvious reason could be his interest to seek information. At the same time, he can get it from other resources as well. The only way to bind your visitor and engage him with your application is through awesome browsing experience and of course valuable information”.

Front end for visual appealing web application: As told above, a web application must be visually attractive enough to attract its users; else the effort is useless. In fact, front end developers plays an important role in creating awesome web application and helping the back end developers by morally supporting them in terms of more numbers of visitors. They make the effort of back end programmers fruitful by giving better look and feel to the web application along with attractiveness.

Front end for interactive web page design: Interactive web application is gaining popularity in the industry. User wants to interact with the web page effectively and as a web developer its our duty to provide user focused data to the web browser. This is possible with front end design using JavaScript- the superfast and awesome programming language. It reduces the burden on the server by eliminating unnecessary stuffs from the web page. It only displays what the user wants to or needs. By this process, the web application becomes more users friendly and interactive. With functions like onClick(), hover and others the page becomes interactive and gives more control to the end user to choose the data to be rendered on the page as per his wish.

Front end for lag free application experience: Lag during browsing makes the whole experience damn horrible. Imagine you have developed a great website with lots of information but, the web page loads slowly or even sometimes crash in low bandwidth. It is really a nightmare experience for the user and he is supposed to leave your application. On the other hand, if your front end developer is highly energetic and crafts an awesome web application that will not only load faster but also never lags; then? The result is awesome. It will improve the overall user experience to a large extend. It can be possible with different front end techniques that we are going to discuss latter section of this article.

Front end for visual graphics: Without visual effects, a web page looks dull and boring. So, we must create a web application that is highly energetic with prominent visual effects and graphics. Add some graphics to your website through images, gif files and embedding videos on the page to make it attractive enough. Still is your website getting slow due to weight of these high impact graphics? Don't worry!! HTML5 and CSS3 are there to help you out. You need light weight graphics; done with HTML5. You want to play video files without that old and heavy flash plug-in? Granted! Do it with a simple <video> tag. Want to give control to user, do it with "controls" attribute of <video> tag. For attractive visual effects for your different sections of your web content can be done with CSS3 transition and other elements. What type of spice you need to attract your user? Everything can be done by the front end developer.

Front end for responsive web application: Growing trend of smart phone industry is simply beyond our imagination. Who predicted such high volume of smart phones in the industry within just a decade of time? None other than the fate of smart phone!! Now, smart phones are the most trusted and user friendly destination for all types of web browsing purpose! Any website would have getting more hits from smart devices than that of desktops and it's absolutely true; no inflation at all. So, web application i.e. not intended for smart browsers can make you fall in trouble in no time. Your business may shrink if you could not able to catch the trend of the industry. So, ready and craft your business web app fit for those small yet tiny dynamites to sustain in the industry. Responsive web design by a front end web developer can save you. It is the technique by which your web application will impart similar user experience irrespective of device screen size and resolutions.

Front end for fluid design: Fluid design is probably one of the most gossiped terms used in front end development process after responsive design! Fluid design means the components of a web application will get transformed into different sizes with respect to the screen size. Here the front end developer will keep all the components and elements of the web page in percentage instead of that old fashioned pixel (px) or em or even pt. This helps in rendering the contents in different sizes so as to fit into the screen and then the user from the smart phone will interact with the page by zooming or double tapping. Though it is not a fully optimized process; still you can manage or handle multiple device browsing support with fluid design. For better user experience, you should take the help of media queries to make the page transformed into a responsive page and contents will render differently in different screen sizes without hampering the user experience.

Smart apps with front end developer: Smart apps are the next generation web application. Every web application is now crafting their new version to fit with the smart devices. So, a front end developer or designer can create awesome smart app for your old era website with the same essence intact to the application. After all, we have to step ahead with the future demand!

Pure native app with front end HTML5 and CSS3 and JQuery! With front end technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery you can design any native app. If you want to make it data driven; that can also be possible with JS frameworks like AngularJS, nodeJS and backboneJS etc. The best part is that, your application is not going to lag in any manner rather it will be superfast with the power of JavaScript and future ready single threaded Asynchrounous multiple request handling concept.

Mindfire Solutions has an experienced HTML5 application development team that has designed highly interactive web applications for quite some time now. If you are interested to avail the front end development services of Mindfire Solutions, please send in your requirements to sales at Mindfire Solutions dot com.

Should You go for Development of Your Mobile Website Using HTML5?

"The world hates change; yet it is the only thing that has brought progress!"- General Eric. Was a time then, when we perform our computer operation with a palm sized Calculator having very limited access to our thoughts and of course needs. Last phase of the 20th century was then gifted with a bigger better hardware i.e. "Computer System" by IBM; and Microsoft made it sensible enough with its flagship product i.e. Windows Operating system; an absolutely game changer for the industry. With inception of 21st century, industry conceived with a new generation smart brain based computer system i.e. Smart Phones and was flooded with smart apps and mobile apps to make the user connected to rest of the world. Mobile apps or Mobile websites are nothing but the smarter version of desktop websites and they can be treated as smartsites!! For a smarter device or software we must use even smarter technology for better throughput and user experience- hence the evolution of HTML5. And it is a must for any mobile website design, let's find out why?"

Mobile website, form factor and HTML5: The population of smart phones is increasing at a rapid pace; almost every day there is a new Smartphone getting launched in the industry. These devices are of different form factors like 3 inches to 10 inches diagonally. But the developer needs to develop a common mobile website that can fit to every screen size and resolution and it is really a nuisance for them. With HTML5, web developer can build responsive websites that can impart similar user experience irrespective of screen size and resolution. Things will not break when there is a change in the screen size rather it will accommodate with the resolution. In fact, with HTML5 we can design a page that will render the web content differently in different scenarios and this is the charm of developing mobile websites with HTML5. Features like media-query for viewport are simply awesome. Now, with HTML5, we can use <picture> and it can be directly associated with viewport size, resolution and orientation for efficient delivery of images. HTML5 web developers need not to worry about the size of the image; in fact, he can simply use different images for different resolutions and orientation. This makes a lot sense when we consider Smartphone with many sensible parts like gravity sensor etc.

Truly efficient HTML5 attributes and elements: HTML5 has amazed the whole IT world with its beauty, yes the beauty of efficiency. The things started with its DOCTYPE! Its DOCTYPE is extremely short and simple; you need not to write any URL or any extra stuff to add the HTML5 to your web page. Excluding that, there are many modern and powerful attributes HTML5 posses for its lovers. May it be <audio>, <video>, <container>, <picture>, <form> and others. The front page design becomes much easier with HTML5 with full concentration over the responsiveness of the application. All its features and attributes and elements are truly responsive and hence a web developer needs not to worry about its user experience at the end of day. It has inbuilt form validation feature that used to be a part of JavaScript developers; but now it can be well organized by the HTML5 developer alone. You just need to enter the type of the field and the rest is taken care by HTML5. Imagine for a phone number, you need not to write any JS code for validating if it is filled by numbers only rather it can be done automatically from HTML5 core. Similar fashion is there for email fields, text field, date picker etc. It simply improves the productivity due to its unmatched efficiency.

Memory constraints and HTML5: Mobile websites or smart sites run on smart devices like android or iOS smart phones or tablets. Due to their portable form factor, they have a limitation from the memory point of view. They have few GB (Of course around16 GB or at max 32GB) of inbuilt memory along with 1 or 2GB RAM. Again the speed of the device is often par below than that of a bigger desktop machine. It used to run with less frequency to save the power- which is again another limitation. So, our mobile website should be optimized enough since it needs to run on a limited memory. HTML5 makes it possible with its highly optimized elements. These elements will make your page light and load faster. HTML5 has an improved feature i.e. Local Storage that enables the browser to store some essential data of the user so that he can access the webpage in a smarter way. User is given control to kill the local storage data at any point of time if he wants to release memory.

HTML5 can help you for low Bandwidth operations: If we are considering mobile website then we are targeting mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. These devices usually run on mobile networks like 3G, 2G or 4G LTE. But the penetration of high speed internet can't be expected from every location due to lack of proper and advanced infrastructure in many developing countries; but the major population of mobile website user are from those geographic regions. So, we must consider their bandwidth issue and we must design a mobile website that can give better user experience even at low bandwidth and this is really challenging! HTML5 is there to help us out!! It can create amazing web pages that are extremely lightweight and hence takes less bandwidth to download. HTML5 developer can implement canvas instead of any larger multimedia files. The best part is that, you need not bother about any third party media player to run a media on the browser like Flash or something else. HTML5 does not require any plug-in for playing media instead it does the things itself and hence decreasing the load on the browser. Similarly, with picture element, one can extract an image slowly from the server without impacting the user experience. HTML5 can also help in creating interactive web pages with Games that are light weight using canvas and some help from the lightening fast JavaScript.

Offline access with HTML5 for better user experience: HTML5 has an outstanding cache management system that helps in improving the browsing experience on a mobile browser. The Local Storage can help you in storing a web page data on the client browser and it enables the user browsing those pages while in offline state due to availability of HTML content on the browser itself.

At Mindfire Solutions, we have been developing engaging sites for both mobile and web using HTML5. Our 20+ team of HTML5 developers have been serving our esteemed clients and have developed over 50 HTML5 projects. Please feel free to write to us for all kinds of HTML5 development requirements, we will be glad to assist you. Also, as a limited period offer, you can avail our Risk-Free Trial Offer.