How to make your site mobile compatible

[fisicx]

If you have an iPhone there's an app called m.dot which I use and makes a mobile site for you which links to your website

And it is completley pants.

I created a responsive site that works in ALL devices by adding about 50 lines to the CSS.

However...

Because of the high resolution of many newer mobile devices the need for a responsive site is rapidly disappearing. Remember .mobi anyone?

 

[Darrenchase]

And it is completley pants.

I created a responsive site that works in ALL devices by adding about 50 lines to the CSS.

However...

Because of the high resolution of many newer mobile devices the need for a responsive site is rapidly disappearing. Remember .mobi anyone?

It does what I need at the minute.i just haven't got the patience at the minute to duplicate all my pages changing the index to make it mobile so just using it as a go between for now.

 

[ITsoldUK]

It does what I need at the minute.i just haven't got the patience at the minute to duplicate all my pages changing the index to make it mobile so just using it as a go between for now.

You do not need to.

Responsive or mobile layout can be controlled by the css...

 

[fisicx]

Exactly. It took me about an hour to do the first one. It's all in the CSS. Which means google will love you more than using an app.

 

[Faevilangel]

1 line of HTML (the meta element) and then a few extra lines of CSS.

There is a new "fad" coming in though, and that is retina ready websites (only on macs, ipads and iphones at present but other devices coming).

This is where you have 2 versions of an image, the normal sized and double sized one, which used the naming convention [email protected]. The "retina image" has to be exactly twice the size of the other image.

It just makes the image look better on the "retina ready" devices which are available.

 

[Darrenchase]

You do not need to.

Responsive or mobile layout can be controlled by the css...

You've lost me!!! I'm not a web designer or anything like that my site was built using serif x5 so was referring to what I have to do using that.

 

[fisicx]

Nothing wrong with what you are doing but we are pointing out that there are far better ways to create a site that works on all devices.

Serif is not the best site builder but you can still make if responsive. A few minutes searching on google turned up a number of tutorials on how to tweak the CSS. Or you pay someone to do it for you.