High resolution display screen is most popular required feature for mobile phones these days. Most of us like to have a better visual experience through high resolution devices. Retinal display technology on Apple devices is felt more like a blessing by the users. However the problems created by these high resolution displays cannot be overlooked either. For developers and designers, it is not easy creating and handling high resolution contents.
Below are few tips for building better media display advertisements and publishing the digital content online on smaller screens
Better start designing with efficient devices like iPad
Although the designing order usually starts from lesser to higher featured devices, the suggestion for this case is to go in the reverse direction, which is to start development from highest resolution devices having high interactive platforms. The main reason for doing this is that they are able to handle deep resolution better than older devices.
After development on the high resolution supportive platform, you can switch over to the lower ones like smartphones and desktops. It ensures efficient optimization of content over all devices.
Make use of web fonts in your content
There are plenty of Web fonts. They allow you to use any font of your choice without being rendered as an image first. Download all fonts separately and use font-face value changer of the browser to change the text as per your needs and specification. By doing it this way, you can save a lot of bandwidth for internet users with high resolution devices.
Combine web fonts for shading and masks for high resolution devices to get more customizable results. You can also use any of the compression technology on the images that normally create undesirable objects of the text fonts.
Avoid using PNGs – Instead use CSS for desired and appropriate size of images
The web technologies like CSS and PNG allow for more optimization of high resolution displays comfortably in any bandwidth. You will also need to use progressive enhancement ways to mark up and put the content on the web. In this way it will look cool and descent in the browsers which do not support it.
Create some common graphical elements using rounded corners, colors, gradient and opacity like features. For customizing visuals such as lines, corners, tabs and buttons, use cascading style sheets of HTML instead of using portable network graphics. It will look crisp, as they consume lesser kilo bytes of memory. It can also help you customizing your image size more accurately.
Borrowing and using techniques of game designers for high resolution content on iPad
Games usually are of high resolution display, and they use specific deep resolution techniques. So, in order to bring crispness in development of high resolution content, you could instead use the techniques of game designers.
Texture and sprite maps are the best gaming techniques that can be used for creating high quality mobile contents. In these techniques, the designers use a number of background images to display, in order to prevent the downgrade of image pixels on higher zoom.