6. • The iPad Generation expects a smooth user‐experience when visiting
your website – no matter what kind of device they’re using. And that’s
not what they’re getting when they use their mobile devices. Google
did a study that found that –
• 48% of your mobile visitors say that they feel “frustrated and
annoyed” when on sites that are poorly optimized for mobile,
and
• 36% saying they feel like “they’ve wasted their time” when
they visit those sites.
• This usability issue is a big problem – one that has kind of been
creeping up on us since June 2007…
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8. • But here’s the thing… The iPad Generation doesn’t just have just two types of devices,
a desktop computer and an iPhone.
• They use dozens of different types of devices. Tablets, mini‐tablets, smart phones,
netbooks, cinema displays – each with a different screen size, and all being used to
view your website.
• And that’s why the old idea – build a website, and then build mobi version, doesn’t
work so well anymore.
• There’s just too many different size screens.
• So what’s the solution?
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9. • In the summer of 2012 Google officially endorsed something called “Responsive
Design.”
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10. • Responsive design coding techniques make every page of your website mobile‐
friendly. The technology repackages each website page to fit on any screen size,
automatically, regardless of the type of device that’s being used to view it.
• This is how it works... [show demo]
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11. DEMO
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• The obvious benefit is that it no longer matters if your website visitor is on an iPhone,
iPad, laptop, desktop, Kindle – or even a cinema display. Your website automatically
expands and adjusts to fit the screen size of that device.
• But there are a few other benefits of using this new coding technique. Perhaps the
most noteworthy is that it eliminates the need to maintain a separate mobile website.
• And that means one less thing for the marketing department to worry about. Three
cheers for that, right!?
• So responsive design offers:
• an easier–to‐use‐website for a growing population of mobile users
• that’s less hassle for the marketing department to maintain
• It’s a win‐win
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14. • So, that leaves one big question: Is responsive design something that you need to start
thinking about right now? Today?
• Well, if your firm is committed to content marketing – the answer is a resounding YES.
• Why? Because a successful content marketing strategy is about creating highly‐
compelling content, and sharing it ‐‐ with the expectation that it will be shared and re‐
shared over and over again.
• And how are people sharing content they love? Via email and social media. And these
happen to be two of the main applications used on mobile devices.
• So, if we expect people to read and share our content, and we know they’re going to be
using mobile devices to do it – we need to make the content as easy‐to‐access as
possible on mobile devices. And responsive design is clearly the best approach for this.
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15. • I want to leave you today with one thought:
• If we want to cater to the iPad generation, we all need to start by thinking of our
audience differently.
• Traditionally, we legal markers have pictured our prospects in their office, sitting on a
desk chair, consuming our content on a full sized computer. This is picture is becoming
less‐and‐less common .
• I recently came across a fact that perfectly illustrates this new trend…
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