Why Responsive Design For Your Digital Publication Is Important?
Responsive design helps readers that access your content through mobile to have a pleasing reading experience on your digital publication.
There are many ways for you to publish your digital publications, using a digital publishing solution similar to MagLoft’s Universal App or publishing your websites. Either one of them has its pros and cons. It is important to have your digital publication design be responsive while it is pixel perfect.
Readers are using multiple devices.
In the digital world, many devices have the feature of browsing the internet. From desktops and smartphones to even a refrigerator. Therefore, when building a website, it is important to apply a design where it will look good, load fast and be responsive to any device’s screen size.
The industry has set a new standard to combat this challenge: Responsive Design.
A responsive design means that your images, text and layout will automatically reshape, adjust, rescale, and reorganize the content to match the screen’s size.
This will prevent unnecessary resizing or panning if the website has not been optimized for different screen sizes. This might frustrate the visitor and might cost you, potential customers.
Does this mean Responsive Design is better than Pixel Perfect?
Why choose one if you can have both?
Pixel’s perfect design means that your website will maintain the same perfect ratio and alignment when accessed from any device. This consist of the line spacing, alignment, typography set, and much more. Pixel perfect is a popular design amongst print publications.
Applying this only to a digital publication might not be the best fit.
However, this does not mean that pixel-perfect is not suitable for a website. There are still numerous pixel-perfect design websites out there, one of them is linktr.ee.
Linktree is a landing page used by many businesses to share multiple links in one landing page. It is very popular amongst social media users, therefore, it is mainly designed to fit mobile devices.
But, this does not mean that Linktree completely neglect users that visit their website from desktop. As seen on the picture above, the landing page did not break when it is accessed using desktop. This shows that Linktree manage to fulfil the requirements needed for a desktop view, thus, it is possible to have a webpage design that is both pixel perfect and responsive.
Digital Publication that is both pixels perfect and responsive
MagLoft’s Universal App is a digital publishing solution that has an adequate ratio of both pixel-perfect and responsive design in their publications.
With Universal App, the publisher’s content is adjustable to many screen sizes due to its responsive design. Readers do not need to zoom in or out to be able to read the content fully.
One of MagLoft’s Universal App top features, PDF Toggle View, allows readers to switch between PDF and HTML of the content. On PDF View, readers can see the exact layout and pixel-perfect nature of the PDF design.
Not only that, the PDF layout still gets automatically adjusted with the layout of your devices. When navigating on a landscape orientation, Universal App will fit two pages on the screen (Dual Spread). As soon as you adjust back to portrait orientation, it will only show a single PDF to avoid unnecessary scrolling and gaps.
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