I’ve been monitoring the websites I’ve designed for various clients using Google Analytics. On most of the websites I’ve designed, people are using desktop or laptop computers to visit my client’s web pages.
However, on one site, mobile use of that site is at about 10%. At what point would you suggest that clients start to look at a mobile version of their site?
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The mindset seems to be to design and build your sites with mobile users in mind from the start, maybe even before desktop users. That said, the use of @media queries is one way to serve multiple mobile-specific versions of a single site without the overhead of maintaining and/or hosting a completely separate mobile version. There may be instances where a dedicated mobile site is preferable but from the magic that some people do with @media queries you can certainly go a long way with it.
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On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:19 AM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
At what point would you suggest that clients start to look at a mobile version of their site?
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Thanks Todd. Do you have any examples of sites that were done with @media queries? At first glance, it would seem that designing a website for the least common denominator in terms of devices would be somewhat restrictive, but perhaps I need to wrap my brain around this more. 
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I know what you mean, I tend to design for desktop users first, more out of habit than anything else. Like many design-related things I don’t think there’s an absolute one way or the other. Even though your clients may not get a lot of mobile traffic (yet) I wouldn’t say it’s the least common denominator in the bigger picture. There are certainly restrictions with mobile devices that you don’t have to concern yourself with for desktops but you might be surprised at how much can be accomplished.
I use a smattering of @media queries on my site (it’s not perfect but it is at least functional, though it needs updating for iPhone 5). I’m working on another site that uses some, but off the top of my head I don’t know of any truly outstanding examples. Though if you do a search you’ll find plenty of discussion and examples of solid responsive design examples that employ @media.
It’s an interesting area to get into.
Todd
On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:54 AM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
Thanks Todd. Do you have any examples of sites that were done with @media queries? At first glance, it would seem that designing a website for the least common denominator in terms of devices would be somewhat restrictive, but perhaps I need to wrap my brain around this more.
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