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Mobile Website Considerations



User: Roddy 10 years ago
It's worth pointing out that, to avoid disappointment, your carefully crafted EW drop down menus are not going to work as planned on mobile devices.

Drop down menus use hover to expose the sub menu and mobile devices can't see you hovering!

This means that visitors have to click but there is no way to un-click as it were. To get rid of the drop down they need to tap another button and so on...

I put together a page that would work for smart phones that are similar in size to iPhone with a more suitable navigation...

http://roddymckay.com/EasyWeb/mobile/index.html

This page demos both styles of navigation in a responsive design to show how you can get them to switch...

http://ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/codebox/codebox-menu.html

... but is only going to be of interest to more advanced users.

If you load either of the above on an iPhone you'll also see that the browser address bar rolls back out the way after page load. This is another feature that needs to be considered on such sites. The easiest way to do this is to paste the java script into the site wide footer code box in the Site Publishing Settings page.

For those that don't have an iPhone, here's how it looks...



Mobile sites are usually added to your hosting account as a sub domain so that they have a Url something like this...

http://mobile.domain-name.com ..or..
http://m.domain-name.com ..or..
http://pigs-can-fly.domain=name.com

Once you have uploaded the website files to the sub domain folder you can direct mobile phone users to this version by inserting some java script into the site wide head code box of your main website. The simplest method to use is screen width although java script aficionados will probably want to complicate this somewhat and add all kinds of stuff - just in case!

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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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