Top 5 Time-Tested Website Design Frameworks for Businesses
For a business website, only being functional no longer cuts the ice. In order to ‘retain’ visitors and drive engagement rates, a site has to be ‘well-designed and beautiful’ as well (basic websites are invariably deemed to be boring). Recent reports have shown that close to 93% of all first-impressions about a website hinge on design-related elements – making it absolutely imperative for experts from any top website design agency in Kolkata (or elsewhere) to focus on ensuring optimised user-experiences (UX) on this count. Thankfully, there are plenty of multi-featured and highly useful website design frameworks available online – which designers can use, to make websites more immersive. We will here look at a few of these popular web development frameworks:
- Montage / Montage JS
- Bootstrap
- Material UI
- Pure / Pure CSS
- Foundation
Montage JS offers visual authoring & multiple enclosed Templates
Montage is a widely used HTML design framework that has a plethora of unique and high-utility elements. These include data deceleration tools, functional reactive bindings, support and visual authoring, and enclosed templates. The presence of reusable codes and other components add to the advantages of this web framework. For ethical developers and web designers who prefer to write/create their own coding, Montage comes in really handy.
Enhancement of overall visitor-experience becomes easier, by using the Montage design tool. There are specific software principles and design patterns that are time-tested, and are instrumental in taking up the quality of user-interactions to the next level. The seamless scalability of Montage makes sure that developers can use it for designing web layouts for diverse platforms – right from desktop to smartphones. There are no chances of the design quality getting compromised either.
Bootstrap offers SaaS Structure and Utility API
When it comes to comprehensive frontend toolkits for web design & development, few frameworks can rival the features available on Bootstrap. In particular, the extensible Javascript plugins in this tool are used by the top website design agencies in Kolkata – to make their projects more visually appealing and functionally optimised. The framework also comes with a handy ‘start-up guide’ – making it an absolute breeze for new designers to get started with Bootstrap.
From a systematic grid structure, modular Sass structure and Utility APIs (introduced in Bootstrap 5), to intuitive navigation options, themes & icons and plugins (JavaScript plugins) – Bootstrap has it all, and then some, to help users add life & personality to their website design projects. The plugins can also be added by programming, ensuring greater control. The bootstrap framework can be installed through CDN or with the help of the package manager.
Material UI offers highly responsive and customization design library
In the present-day world, the need for improving website design turnaround times – without having to compromise on the overall flexibility parameters – is accelerating. In such a scenario, the Material UI design framework delivers true value to experts on web design services. With extensive documentation (contributed by 2400+ coders) and easy accessibility, the framework has reliable reference points for users. The high degree of control makes the customisations truly intuitive. On Github, Material UI has over 78000 stars – a testimony to the usefulness of the tool.
The fully responsive UI design library of Material UI is one of the many high points of this front-end framework. React elements are used in the built-in CSS processor. There are powerful design kits and templates to help websites rank high on the aesthetics count. Components are classified under ‘MUI Core’ and ‘MUI X’. Not surprisingly, Bootstrap gets a lot of love from open-source designers & developers worldwide.
CSS framework enables to customize CSS components with minimal footprints
Since its launch in 2014, Pure has gradually grown in popularity among web designers – thanks to the tiny yet fully responsive CSS modules it comes with. All modules are gzipped and minified – and as such, can be used in nearly all types of website design projects. The out-of-the-box responsiveness of the Pure elements make sure that viewability is optimised on all screens. Web design needs to be ‘mobile-first’, and the Pure framework enables developers to create visually appealing, responsive layouts.
The customiser feature of the Pure CSS framework, along with their minimal footprints and CSS components, are major advantages. Instead of forcing users to go through the hassles of overwriting pre-existing CSS rules, the framework makes it possible to add new lines of CSS. In addition to the common UI elements, Pure brings the features of Normalise.css to the table. For designing progressive web applications, the framework is particularly useful.
Foundation offers enhanced readability and advanced HTML snippets
Billed as one of the most powerful front-end web development frameworks, Foundation is a medium/device – agnostic tool that designers across the world rely on. The enhanced readability, semantic efficiency, advanced HTML snippets and flexibility of Foundation add to its overall utility. The Foundation framework for sites enables quick and easy prototyping (via CSS, HTML and JavaScript) – and it is ideal for generating fully customised and content-focused websites. There is a Foundation framework for emails as well.
Foundation stands out in terms of its overall ease of use. There are multiple plugins to make life easier for web designers – while the framework’s value is further enhanced through its array of library containers, smooth navigation and layer support. Markups are made cleaner, and device-specific complexity layers are added. Foundation is a lightweight framework for web development – but it packs in all the features for uber-responsive web design & deployment.
Note: In addition to the above, Semantic UI, Skeleton, Simple Grid, Cascade and Gumby also enjoy excellent popularity as user-friendly web design frameworks.
The World Wide Web is fast becoming saturated, with new websites being launched practically every day. At present, there are close to 2 billion websites – and to help businesses stay ahead of the competition, professional web design services have become all about helping a website stand out. The fact that, on average, 1 out of every 2 buyers feel that brands need to improve the design schemes of their websites justifies this. When website design is optimised, chances of brand success are maximised – there are no two ways about it.
Nearly 74% customers feel that the official website of brands is a much more authentic point of information than any other source. You need to be careful while designing it!
Indrajit is AVP, Technology at Brandwizz Communications. He loves traveling and is a proud father of twin angels. Tech is his passion and he breathes it every moment.
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