Creating a Mobile Friendly Site

So the number one thing on my To Do list this morning was to make Family Brings Joy mobile friendly.

I have been putting this task off, thinking it would be complicated.  Never fails, when I think something will be complicated, it isn’t.  Opposite is always true for me as well.  When I think something will be quick and easy to do, HA…NOT…it ends up taking hours.  I will forever be grateful when the first happens.  I like the outcome of it way better!  So maybe I just need to tell myself everything is complicated?  This way I can trick the universe and make everything easy for me, right?  I wish!

I’m not sure how many of you out there read Family Brings Joy on a mobile device.  {Way to go Shan, that would have been a great survey question!}  Honestly, I can’t stand reading blog posts on my phone…mainly because I don’t like the small screen.  My iPhone touch screen and I don’t get along very well either.  It never types what I want it to type and takes forever to type a comment.  I prefer being at my desktop any day.  I like my monitor and keyboard.  However, when I have been directed to a site who has their blog ‘mobilized’ I enjoy how quickly it downloads and how I can see the type/posts right away.  After all, it’s all about TIME, right?

Heads up WordPress users, making your site mobile friendly is as simple as installing a Plugin.  Turns out there are many different plugins to make your site mobile friendly.  I chose WP Touch thanks to WPBeginner’s helpful post titled 11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site.  It was quick, simple and painless to install.

On the other hand, I don’t like how you can’t see the pretty design {I paid money for} on the mobile site.  It looks drab and plain.  You know me, I like color, art, photography, graphics etc.  If I’m going to visit a site, even a mobile one, I’d like for it to stand out some.  I would at least like to have my logo on there.  Thus…sigh…begins the search to figure out how to make this happen.  Until then, I apologize for the plainness of the ‘mobilized’ version of Family Brings Joy.

Decided I would add the survey again, just in case you haven’t had a chance to give me your much needed feedback:

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Thank you to the 14 wonderful readers who have graciously taken time to give me their valuable feedback so far.

To a new day and new week,

Comments

  1. Shannon–

    You have a GORGEOUS blog (and home!!). Way to go! I might need to hire you do overhaul my blog :)

  2. Monica says:

    I never look at blogs either on my phone for same reason, but I will check this out on my iphone and see how it works. It seems much of your blogging is visual (photography lover) so I can see how the mobile version would seem drab. I guess, in hindsight, I have read blogs that people have linked in Facebook that have been more opinion/story based.
    Anywho, my two cents. Way to go on making changes and progress!

  3. Joyce says:

    Hi Shan,

    My name is Joyce and I’m the community specialist at BraveNewCode the company that develops WPtouch. I came across your blog post today and just wanted to say thanks for the mention! By the way, if you’re still having difficulties customizing your site, I would recommend posting inquiries in the WordPress forums: http://wordpress.org/tags/wptouch?forum_id=10

    Hope this helps.
    Joyce recently posted..BraveNewCode Wear: Our 2012 Artist Designed T-shirt Series

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