Creating Responsive websites with ASP.net MVC Development
With more and more people starting to depend on mobile devices for their internet browsing needs, having responsive websites has become more of a necessity for businesses than an option. With a large variety of devices, platforms, screen sizes and hardware types in use, websites need to render perfectly irrespective of these variables to deliver an optimum user experience to every user. For businesses, this means the construction of responsive websites using the best tools at hand. This is one area where ASP.net MVC development can come in handy. The model view controller approach makes for easier separation of concerns and makes coding a smoother and more intuitive process, helping with the overall quality of finished product.
Already one of the most popular coding frameworks in the world, ASP.net is used by a large number of developers and is considered to be a powerful and versatile coding language. Websites and web applications built with ASP.net MVC power many of the world’s top websites presently. With the techniques and tools at the disposal of developers when using ASP.net, the framework can be also put to good use while developing responsive websites. ASP.net can indeed be a potent tool in the hands of savvy developers while putting together a responsive website which guarantees a complete and immersing user experience irrespective of the device in use while accessing it.
ASP.net MVC for Responsive Mobile Websites
Out of the box, ASP.net MVC gives developers a large number of tools and options which they can put to great use while creating responsive websites. These tools are mainly geared towards optimizing and streamlining the user experience provided by websites and web applications when accessed from mobile platforms.
There are various ways ASP.net MVC can be creatively used in the context of responsive websites. Here are a few useful ones –
Relying on Mobile Browsers – The simplest and most inexpensive route you can take with a website is to build a regular desktop version and leave it there, relying on the rendering prowess of mobile browser apps to render it smoothly on mobile platforms. Most modern mobile browsers are quite capable and have inbuilt compliance for standards of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Even in these cases, you can use header instructions in your code to study the viewport of the browser accessing the website and set the initial scaling on your website render accordingly for a better usage experience. You can also implement CSS media queries for client-side handling of rendering.
- Bootstrap – An immensely popular framework for creating and deploying responsive websites, Bootstrap and its capabilities can be used in perfect conjunction with ASP.net MVC with the help of a NuGet package. As of 2013, Visual Studio already includes native support for Bootstrap for building responsive web applications, set to default. With this option, developers can unleash the full power of ASP.net MVC while authoring websites and have automatic support for responsive design. You can use the included template, or can import any other Bootstrap example template of your choice from the Bootstrap library and integrate it with you ASP.et project.
- Foundation – This is another popular and widely used framework for responsive development which can be used in conjunction with ASP.net MVC for maximum efficiency and versatility. To integrate, you simply need to clean up your framework and remove the default bootstrap support, and install support for Foundation via a NuGet package. The integration makes the necessary changes to the framework, and you get a work environment where you can write code and the output is automatically responsive. As a front-end solution, this is as good as it can get.
- Server Side Solutions – If you want to tackle the issue of responsiveness server side, ASP.net MVC has a handful of useful tools to aid you with this. ASP.net MVC already has native support for browser detection via tools which allow you to arrive at a close estimate of the kind of device that is being used to access the website. This feature can be further enhanced by 51 Degree Mobi Foundation library integration which significantly improves the performance of browser detection. You can also use tools like Telerik UI for performance optimized AJAX tools which allows you to extract information about the exact screen dimensions of a mobile device which is being used to access the website, and render the website accordingly.
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