The Ultimate Testing Tools For Responsive Design

Posted by on May 8, 2019 · Leave a Comment 

As a team of dedicated developers and programmers, we understand the importance of testing – one of the crucial stages in the software development cycle. Over the past decade, various clients from the U.S and other markets have time and again hired the services of coders working at HireIndianProgrammers. With that experience, we know that websites and business websites in particular cater to different segments of people. In addition to that, the proliferation of the internet powered mobiles mean that client’s website and applications must run efficiently across devices.

In this blogpost, our programmers seek to list out the top tools to test your application with ease. All these tools satisfy certain criteria in some or the other way and have different levels of user control. Experiment around and opt for the tool that is most suitable for your needs.

 

Screenfly

With Screenfly, programmers can test their client’s website on any screen size including desktops, tablets and mobile phones etc; Developers can also add any custom size they want. The provision of simple tools to rotate, scroll and click makes this tool an easy recommendation for us. What’s more? If you are working as a team of developers hired by a big client, you can share your designs across and work on it together in their browser itself.

 

Responsive Design Checker

This is a great tool for programmers preferring to manually tweaking the controls. It displays your creation i.e website into a window under different orientations without really having to changing the browser size – be it mobile or desktops. Developers will also find it useful to take screenshots for later assessment.

 

Google Mobile-Friendly Test

SEO is no more a technical term. Tech savvy clients who are starting their online business are very much aware that their website must follow Google’s standards so that their page ranking may improve. Clients hiring dedicated programmers expect them to invariably incorporate it. With this tool, developers and coders can see for themselves the visibility of the webpages that they have developed. This tool is also useful for programmers in that it has the mechanism to recognise those issues and places where the website might be sluggish. It allows for easy fixes. However, it is limited to only mobile devices.

 

Responsive Web Design Testing Tool

The emphasis of this free tool is ease of use. This simple tool allows developers to type in the URL  in the space provided and compare your output across orientations within a few clicks. Developers can also use this tool for testing in a set environment.

 

Lambda Test

With two versions of this tool available for programmers – the lite one and the paid one – LambdaTest is one of the better options in this list for the following reasons. In addition to making it possible for programmers to take screenshots, this tool can achieve a lot more. It allows the programmers to test in a holistic way checking all parameters – compatibility, user experience and so on in a real time scenario. The paid version enables programmers to debug errors, if any.

 

Designmodo Responsive Test

This tool is loaded with a lot of features and toggles. Another reason for developers to really check out this design testing tool is the clean interface. Programmers hired along tight deadlines will find this small thing to be a boon. The free tool also has colour accessibility options and bootstrap templates to improve the overall website design.

 

XRespond

XRespond allows programmers to check the consistency of their websites. This will be especially useful in cases where the client has a large base of customers of different kinds. For instance, suppose a client is hiring a programmer or hiring a developer to develop or improve an e-commerce website. Now, regular customers do online shopping from different devices, increasingly more of smartphones – be it android or iOS. In such a scenario, programmers would find it extremely useful to test their design responsiveness across devices at the same time.

Hope this article gave programmers of different calibre an idea on how to go about choosing a good tool for testing design responsiveness.

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SEO Friendly Web Design

Posted by on February 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment 

When it comes to building websites for your business, especially if it concerns a brand, you will need to follow a set of mantras. SEO – Search Engine Optimisation is one among them. An SEO friendly website will allow your website to drive a good amount of organic traffic – very important for the success of business websites. More organic traffic means more customers.

This methodological process can be executed impressively by letting an experienced SEO company to do the website design and development for you. With a dedicated team of programmers at HireIndianProgrammers, all your SEO needs comes to an end.

In this blogpost, we will provide some tips on creating an SEO friendly web design.

 

Title Tag

This is crucial from an SEO point of view because, titles are the first to be crawled by search engines and therefore must include the most important keywords you as a business want to rank in search engines.

Responsive Web Design

Responsiveness is key for search engine optimisation of your website. Using a lot of flash, for instance, on your website can badly impact your website. Use it wherever necessary.

Reducing load times will result in more customers staying in your website, thereby resulting in more signup conversions, boosting business. In this respect, it is highly imperative that you hire the right programmer because only such a person will wholly understand its significance and do everything in her power to develop an efficient website.

 

Image Optimisation

In addition to text optimisation in your site, you must also attempt to optimise your images. This is because images have a lot of data and pose loading problems in user devices.

Image optimisation can be achieved by employing smart SEO tactics such as choosing small to medium images and including potential keywords under the alt tag of your images. This will improve your search engine optimisation.

 

Be Specific

Out of a billion websites, if you want your business website to improve in search engine rankings, then you have to be more specific. Anything you put on your website, including URLs, has to be user friendly. This will let the search engine know about your site in detail.

Hiring the right programmer is therefore imperative, for she will know to ask the exact specificationsof your business.

 

Platform Optimisation

With more kind of devices in the market, customers are accessing the same web from different sources. This calls for optimisation across devices. It is very likely customers will prefer accessing your website on their mobile devices. Therefore, being mobile friendly is an important aspect from an SEO standpoint.

A good programmer would know for a fact that a greater emphasis on mobile SEO development is preferred in recent years.

 

Social Media

Incorporating social media tools in your website will help it rank better in the search engine. In whatever social media your business may have an account, it is beneficial to include those corresponding icons in your site. This will allow your business to be more personable for your customers. And, bring more personable will result in increasing your customers’ loyalty.

You can get started in your website development process by first checking out our team at HireIndianProgrammers, their credentials, area of expertise and previous work.

You can then proceed to hire a programmer from HireIndianProgrammers.

For more queries, contact us here.

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