Getting Your Site Mobile Ready
I am a Judgment Broker who writes almost too much. This article is my opinion about how one might be able to save money, changing or checking their site to make it more compatible to mobile devices.
Like most companies, our business has a site, which has been around for a long time, long before cell phones and wireless portable computing devices became web-enabled.
Like many companies, we are always on a budget and busy, so we web searched for terms like "how to make your web site mobile friendly".
We read generic tips and advice, used site checkers, and checked prices for consulting and service companies, that for a hefty fee, offered to make sites mobile compatible.
An option we saw, was to move our web site to WordPress and use plug-ins, however that seemed to be rather radical. For me, WordPress seems to be better suited on a blog, than on a general purpose web site.
We found an assortment of general advice; for example, to avoid Flash, simplify, and to use CMS and CSS. However, what do Cascading Style Sheets and Content Management Systems (both with merits) have in common with mobile device readiness?
We saw many cautions, that if one did not modify their web site, their business will decline. Long term, that is always true. Change always comes, so we should embrace it.
Making software work everywhere relies more on standards and simplicity, than on complexity. Even if mobile devices were not growing like crazy, one needs to periodically update their site.
After much web "window shopping", reading, and testing, and prior to spending a lot of money reworking our web site, we decided to look at our web site with an iPod Touch first. We only wanted to estimate how much work would be needed, and we were somewhat surprised.
Because our web site is content-rich, yet it uses mostly simple html. It has no Adobe Flash, and it works very well with mobile devices. We found we could navigate and read everything, mostly because of the zooming and scrolling features of the iPhone/iPod.
We found that our web site already worked so well, that we stopped worrying about it being more mobile compatible, for now.
Will our site work on weaker devices than the iPod? We do not know for certain. I predict, any future iPhones and iPods, and the competitors whose products are inspired by iPods/iPhones, will display most sites just fine.
If your site uses every latest technology, flash, and every bell and whistle, perhaps a much work is needed to make your web site friendly to portable devices.
Always test, to check if your site does not work on mobile devices, or is confusing, as quickly as possible. Surprisingly, many web sites work better on modern mobile devices than most people would think.
This reminds me, that this is not the first time technological problems should be approached first from a Zen point of view.
When it comes to technology, it is often best to begin with simple, cheap, and easy, end-user testing first; prior to figuring out what (if any) work should be done next.
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