2013 is the time for action moving websites to mobile optimised platforms and designs. This presentation includes some examples of responsive design, responsive menus, various mobile statistics to do with adoption, and other advice on some of the requirements of a mobile website.
14. Device Capabilities
Check Analytics
Catering for every possible device variation will be too expensive
to achieve
Use your Analytics data to establish which devices provide goals
and sales
Which devices provide general traffic?
15. Detection and redirection
HTTP Headers provide information
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-
us) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2
Mobile/8C148 Safari/534.24
Detection libraries like Tera-WURFL and similar provide vast
device information resources: eg:
Screen resolution; colour depth; javascript; flash support; flash-lite;
browser-CSS-bugs; etc.
OR: Javascript detection on page. Less reliable though
17. Content Strategy - decisions and dilemmas
How much content is the right quantity? (Quality?)
Mobile devices are used in “mobile” situations
Remember you are the least objective observer
(Except when you ask someone for their opinion)
Use Analytics to see what mobile users actually do.
drop unvisited content to simplify navigation
Full or Partial site content?
18. Content Strategy – generalised guidance
On the move situations require less content
Simple facts with click for more info links
Directions pages for physical businesses
Postcodes for Satellite Navigation systems
Link to Google Maps
Use hyperlinked Telephone numbers
<a href=“tel:+441872555933”>
20. Mobile Web 2013
Apps:
4th Ranked Apps developer Magma Mobile
8/12/10 – 8/1/11 – 4,900,000 Android app downloads
(800 paid for app downloads)
1 in 4 apps downloaded are never used again
21. Testing
Select all target devices from analytics
Test, test and test on all target devices
Review your target device list every 6months.