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raymor · 01-23-2012, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AJHall

Unfortunately the size and display of something that looks good on a computer monitor looks very different on a 320 pixel wide display. This is why the best approach is to maintain a standard and a mobile specific version. There are enough people surfing on mobile phones now to justify this. While the OP doesn't mind it, a lot of people really do hate scrolling around and zooming in on a site meant for a computer screen. It's a much better experience for an end user of your site to be able to choose which version of the site they prefer to view.

2 years ago we first started offering mobile pay site versions as an option for customers using the Elevated X CMS. Since then I've never had a single user ask me about a universal version instead. I've also heard nothing but positive feedback from customers who have mobile versions of their sites.

A separate, mobile optimized versions is the way to go.

AJ

AJ I'm working with some of your HTML right now. Your stuff looks good and if that works for you, great. Recently one of our customers asked us for a mobile version of our pages. He was very happy with the result. It looked nice on all the phones we tried and all the ones he tried.

What did we do differently on the mobile version? We REMOVED a line from our CSS and sent it back to him. That's it. Just removed one line that assumed a desktop size display and with that line gone it looked great on any display. I realize we were working with a very simple page, so tweaking it to not assume anything about screen size was pretty easy. On a more complex page, building it to not assume a certain size screen is a lot harder.

Definitely harder, but still perhaps worth the effort because I just gave a friend of mine her computer back. It has a 15 inch CRT running at 1024 x 768wide. My widescreen LCD runs 1920x1080 - twice as wide. When you make a "desktop sized" design, is that her desktop, or mine? Is she going to have to scroll back and forth like she's watching a tennis match? I'd rather take more time to make a design that works on her computer, my computer, my brother's giant TV, my mobile, and whatever sells big next Christmas. It is harder to keep in mind that you shouldn't assume the viewer's screen is the same size as yours when designing, but the payoff goes beyond this year's mobile devices.