Responsive Designs becomes a part of professional web designing in these
days. Even Your website or blog everyone prefers responsive web design.
Many of big blogs are now using responsive web design instead of
different Mobile versions. Responsive design also reduce loads and even
an seo friendly. But the main question is we can design website template
as responsive but can we design Blogger based template as a responsive?
Yes you can. Blogger becomes a big CMS platform for blogs development.
Even blogger have many great features as compare to WordPress. Template
designing is much more easier in blogger as compare to WordPress. But we
always think that blog theme are not such professionals like WordPress
theme but i don't think so. For attractive theme designing we need HTML,
CSS, JS, jQuery, Ajax like few designing languages which are enough to
design an attractive theme and these are compatible with Blogger.
Today i will teach you have you can convert your current design into responsive blogger template.
What Does Responsive Design Means ?
Making a Design responsive is way to use same theme for devices in other
words responsive make design compatible for different size devices like
Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphones. Responsive designing done by
using stylesheets means its reduces the load of coding. In these days
every blog prefer responsive instead of separate mobile version and the
major problem with mobile version is its not useful for different screen
sizes like if website is design according to smartphone then may not
work correctly on tablets. So this problem is solved by Responsiveness.
Which is best Responsive Design or Mobile version ?
- Responsive Design are SEO Friendly as compare to separate Mobile version.
- Responsive design adjust itself according to all dimensions Like on Smartphone, Tablet or other devices.
- Responsive Design reduce site loading speed that means your overall performance will increases.
- Responsive Designs also increase your Earnings and you can use responsive adsense ad unit for maximize your earning.
To Check or Test Responsiveness of your design. You need to any tool i suggest
Convert Your Current Blogger Template Into Responsive
Before continue with this process make sure that it requires basic
knowledge about HTML5 and CSS3 because i only can guide about method and
implementation is totally depend on your template codes means all the
class and id vary from template to template so their is not fixed
pattern to do this.
- First of all open your Blogger Blog >> Then Go to template Section
- Click on Edit HTML and then paste below given meta code just below <head> tag.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"/>
- Now Add Responsive Style sheets search for code which looks like ]]></b:skin>
- Then paste paste responsive codes just above it
Here is the sample of all the Responsive CSS queries you have to paste
them and then start add your current classes and id of css for
responsiveness
@media screen and (max-width : 1280px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 1280 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR DESKTOP ---*/
}
@media screen and (max-width : 1024px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 1024 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR TABLETS ---*/
}
@media screen and (max-width : 768px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 768 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR SMALL TABLETS ---*/
}
@media screen and (max-width : 640px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 640 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR IPHONE ---*/
}
@media screen and (max-width : 480px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 480 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR SMARTPHONES ---*/
}
@media screen and (max-width : 320px) {
/* For Size Screen Less than 320 ---*/
/* CSS CODE HERE FOR SMALL MOBILES ---*/
}
Copy and paste the above format and replace /* CSS CODE HERE ---*/ for all device with css codes of your all classes and id of Header, Post Body, Sidebar, Footer and other section of your blog.
@media screen tag is for make css responsive for working different screen size
(max-width : **px) is for maximum width upto which codes will
work just like if you place code in the section of 320 it means when the
screen size is smaller than 320 then it will works and if screen size is larger than 320 then it will not works.
Suppose if you place css in size 480 but not in 320 that means code place in 480 works from the Range of Size (0 - 480) but if place any css in 320 then CSS codes of 480 will works in range (320 - 480). Only for same classes or ids if use then in both screen sizes.
Lets See an Example
@media screen and (max-width: ****px)
{
#main-wrapper { width:100%; margin:0px auto; }
.header-wrapper { width:100%; }
#content { margin-right:0; width:100%; float:left; }
#sidebar { display:none; }
#footer-wrapper { display:none; }
}
Note:- Don't use same classes,
ids and css shown in example. This is just to explain the format become
for each media screen. In same way you have done for all sizes.
Use classes and ids currently used in your blogger template for Main Wrapper, Header section, Content, Sidebar, Footer and other small section and then add css codes.
Some Important CSS Queries For Responsiveness.
1. Always use Width in % instead of pixels just like Width:50%; or adjust percentage according to our requirement.
2. Always use em for size instead of px like 10em instead of 10px.
3. Margin:auto; for alignment into center and it using values for margin from left or right then use them in %
4. Display:none; to hide any particular section.
Important Note:- Sometimes while
designing a responsive template we may feel that our codes are not
working. Actually Responsive code will open works if your whole sections
width should be in % because in case if your any section have fixed
width then it will don't lets your code work to show responsiveness.
I hope you like this blogging tutorial for responsive designing. This article is just to explain how responsive codes work but if are not families will HTML and css then i only suggest you to hire any right guy like me :D to make your design responsive.
