Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Response and Design: Some Tips on Creating Magento Stores for Mobile Devices

According to the e-marketing research, online sales vie tablets and mobile devices will have increased by 25% by the year 2017. Thus, it’s time to think about the design which will suit Magento shopping cart. We’d like to mention below some tips that will let you create the most important elements to make your sites get feedback.

•    For mobile devices:  the primary design should be developed for mobile devices only if you get the biggest part of traffic from them. 

•    Context: it’s a common mistake that mobile device users are interested in the information that can be quickly looked through. In fact, it’s not the case – tablet and mobile device users are interested in completely different context, so you have to create an integral content that can be read in any devices.

•    The ‘go to’ button: it’s a bad idea to place important buttons for moving to new pages and links in the so-called ‘dead zone’ which is the top central part of the tablet. Also, according to Florida iPhone developers, the area around buttons and links (about 40x45 pixels) should be left free in order to avoid occasional (inaccurate) clicks.

•    Downloading time: together with software development company professionals try to create an easy downloadable design; don’t abuse Javascript; make use of the so-called ‘best practices’ to develop an interface – it will help to reduce the downloading time.

•    Additional functions: in order to provide more options for your clients, you can use such mobile and tablet functions as GPS, accelerometer and multitouch.

We hope these tips will help you get maximum from your mobile sites.

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