What's the best way to design a mobile website and should I even be concerned about the mobile web? In this presentation I take a look at the current state of the mobile web (in 2012/2013) and how you can go about creating a mobile website using WordPress.
64. AND MOBILE USAGE IS GROWING
FASTER THAN DESKTOP.
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65. MOBILE IS
ANYTIME
JUST BECAUSE I AM ON A
MOBILE DEVICE DOESN’T
MEAN THAT I AM MOBILE.
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66. HOW DO YOU
DESIGN A MOBILE
SPECIFIC SITE IF
MOBILE USERS
MIGHT NOT BE
MOBILE?
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67. AS A RESULT, THE
OLD METHODS
ARE NO LONGER
EFFECTIVE.
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68. MORE THAN
MOBILE
WITH SO MANY DEVICES
USED EVERYWHERE AND
FOR ANYTHING, EVEN THE
IDEA OF A “MOBILE
WEBSITE” IS ANTIQUATED.
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69. UBIQUITOUS
W E N E E D T O S TA R T
THINKING ABOUT
UNIVERSAL WEBSITES.
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70. CAN’T DO THIS
WITH A MOBILE
SPECIFIC SITE.
How do you accommodate all
devices? What if the users wants
access to all content?
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71. CAN’T DO NOTHING.
It’s human nature to try and conserve energy. Even the
“revolutionary” pinch and zoom feels cumbersome and
painstaking.
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72. THE ANSWER?
RESPONSIVE DESIGN.
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73. Responsive web design
(often abbreviated to RWD)
is an approach to web design
in which a site is crafted to
provide an optimal viewing
experience—easy reading and
navigation with a minimum of
resizing, panning, and
scrolling—across a wide range
of devices.
According to Wikipedia, which we all know is 100% accurate.
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74. EXAMPLES
Boston Globe
Food Sense
Lancaster University
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79. WITH MOBILE FIRST:
ONLY THE MOST
IMPORTANT CONTENT
MAKES IT TO THE SITE
YOU CAN BE SURE
CONTENT CAN BE
ACCESSED AND
DISTRIBUTED BY THE
LARGEST POSSIBLE
AUDIENCE
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81. WITH MOBILE FIRST:
EVERYONE HAS EQUAL
ACCESS TO THE FEATURES,
FUNCTIONALITY AND
CONTENT OF THE SITE.
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82. SIMPLICITY
A SIMPLE SITE IS EASIER
TO USE, EASIER TO BUILD
AND EASIER TO
MAINTAIN.
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