
“Mobile is not the future, it is the now.
Meet your customers in the environment of their choice,
not where it’s convenient for you.”
“Mobile is not the future, it is the now.
Meet your customers in the environment of their choice,
not where it’s convenient for you.”
— Cyndie Shaffstall, Spider Trainers
As you probably know from doing it yourself, more and more people access the internet from their phones these days. So a mobile-friendly website is essential. People need to be able to access your website and its important information easily. Keep your visitors coming to your website, and returning often. With mobile traffic constantly rising, and Google using mobile-friendliness as a ranking tool, you can’t afford to neglect this aspect of your website.
A mobile friendly website should:
Well, method number one is of course checking it on your own smartphone, if you have one. But not everyone has the same phone, and some phones may display things differently.
So you can use different tools to check from your computer. Some options you might use to check your website’s mobile-friendliness are:
For a WordPress site, you can try using a plugin designed for this purpose, like WP Touch. Red Earth Design, Inc. can set this up for you and assist with selecting a theme that is close to your desktop website. The drawback of this type of solution is that it uses its own themes, so it won’t be an exact match for your website’s desktop theme.
For any type of site, you can enlist the help of your friendly web designer, who can make your site responsive and mobile friendly.
We can adapt your website so it is easy to use on mobile devices, while keeping your branding consistent across all devices.