Why responsive photo gallery is a must

Gallery Websites

18 September 2018

Mobile web traffic share has been growing every year and is over 65% now. People search for information, read, watch videos, buy goods and order services via mobile devices. Does it have anything to do with web galleries? Should responsive version be considered for websites on mobile devices?

FW Gallery is developed responsive by default. But if you use a responsive gallery on a non responsive template it won’t help much. If you are in a process of building Joomla! website make sure you it is mobile friendly. In this case all responsive extensions you use will be rendered respectively on mobile devices providing better usability and readability. Better readability will grant you access to wider audience, especially among younger generation.

What kind of problems can be faced, if a website and a joomla image gallery are not responsive?

  • Google search results contains only responsive websites. Which means your visitors are more likely to see your competitors first. Well, if they have responsive websites of course.
  • If you don’t offer something completely extraordinary and unique mobile phone internet users will just close inconvenient website and will look for a similar product or service with better designed interface for mobile devices.
    On mobile devices photo gallery will look clumsy. Images will not fit a screen and visitors will have to zoom in and out to browse a gallery. Navigating among the images and galleries will be tricky and exhausting process.
  • Our company develops responsive turnkey websites with any Joomla! extensions and customizations you may need. If you have a Joomla! website you can use FW Gallery extensions that includes all you need to install and configure modern responsive photo and video gallery.

In addition to FW Gallery responsive origin it has a Custom Size configuration option that allows to scale images down without quality loss decreasing page size and improving website performance.

To order a responsive website development or request customization to FW Gallery please use our Support Chat at bottom right.

Sergiy Gorstka, The head of development

Sergiy works with clients, discussing potential websites architecture and plan new products releases. Web developer, project manager and enthusiast since 2003. A Joomla! Day UK conference speaker. Focuses on utilizing experience from WordPress, Joomla! and Magento projects to increase clients satisfaction of Fastw3b's effective web solutions. Looks at website development as a business perspective rather than another project.