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Mobile friendly option
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User: Roddy 12 years ago
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Quote: Roddy have you successfully created a complete mobile site in Easyweb? I don't really think that there is such a thing as mobile friendly. A site is either designed to work on mobile devices - or not. You can create mobile versions of your site in EasyWeb - one for small tablets and one for smart phones - but you can't as yet create a fluid (dynamic) width site since we still can't use percentage widths in EasyWeb. I have created a smart phone site with EasyWeb just in the same way that I did with iWeb. I advocate the use of two versions of the website - one traditional and one mobile - for beginners since a fully responsive design is far too complicate. Creating a separate mobile version of the site allows the user to focus on inserting features that are not required on traditional sites but are essential on mobile ones. These would include the navigation menu and any other clickable links, contact form, finger swiping slideshow and smaller, resized images and movie files, back to the top button and so on... You need to appreciate the fact that a lot of the content that you place on a traditional site is just there because the designer has a large canvas to play with. Mobile designs need less, and more efficient, content. It's easier to focus on doing this if you are designing specifically for mobiles. Designing a fully responsive site that can be viewed on all browsers is like trying to drive two cars at the same time - not easy! Having said all this, I design sites that can be viewed on all devices but I don't cater for out of date browsers - no way, not ever. Here's one of my templates for a responsive site which has a three level drop down menu for both traditional and mobile versions and uses smooth scroll for back to the top. It is a fairly simple design using grids, floats and a minimum of media queries. Even so, if you look at the source code, it's not exactly beginner material... http://www.ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/cb-temp/ ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: mark 12 years ago
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The idea/hope is that EasyWeb would be able to allow people who do not code to design modern websites. Websites and technology have come a long way since iWeb. Mobile is a huge focus because it is fast becoming the dominant way people view websites and information (and make purchases). Mobile doesn't necessarily mean phones though. Phones are a part of mobile. But if you design 2 sites - one for mobile and one for the computer- which mobile device are you designing for? And which way are you expecting the user to view the site? Landscape or portrait? This is why I think one responsive website is generally the way to go. EasyWeb imo should step up to this challenge and be what iWeb was to people 8 years ago. 8 years ago, iWeb allowed people to deign websites (even 2 different versions of the same site if they wanted) in a template based WYSIWYG way and it was ground breaking in ease of use and what you could do without knowing how to code. Designers, entrepreneurs, artist in all fields flocked to iWeb because they could design with it in the way they wanted without having to learn how to code a single line of HTML. iWeb let people design what they wanted to and didn't get in the way of their ideas or designs. I get you can design two sites, but deigning two sites is not ideal for every situation or in my opinion even the majority of situations. Great, make designing two sites an option but a lot of people, those same designers, entrepreneurs, and artist in all fields that flocked to iWeb are going to want the option to design their site the way they envision it, as a responsive website. Lots and lots of iWeb users were very advanced, expert users of technology and professionals in creative fields, professionals who use pro apps on a daily basis such as photoshop, illustrator, FCP, ProTools, Logic, Aperture, InDesign, Motion, Avid, etc. These are people who know what can be done with technology and have a vision for what they want... iWeb (8 years ago) allowed them to create it. They are looking for a tool that can give them creative control and modern options to execute their vision without having to code. They want to work with and have tools that allow them to be creative and grow not bound and restricted. So yes make designing 2 sites an option, but hey, you can even do that with an 8 year old iWeb. Bring EasyWeb into the here and now and future of the web. And make the ability to design responsive web sites without knowing how to code in a WYSIWYG way possible and an option for the people who do want that ability. My guess is that when EasyWeb put up the poll on their FB page asking people "What are some important features to make your website great!" and the #1 request by far was for "Mobile Friendly Websites" people probably weren't thinking.... "oh, I just want an app that will let me design 2 different sites..." I know I wasn't thinking that! |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 12 years ago
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Thank you all for your feedback. This is something we would like to add. The only things that are preventing it is the difficulty in creating a way to do this that is user friendly and the time it takes to implement these features. We don't need to be convinced that it would be a great feature, we know we would like to add something like this. So we are working on improving EasyWeb with features like this and will get to them as soon as we can. ------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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