This is my current website made with Freeway Pro using the Shine Template.
Is it possible to make one using a percentage as a width sizing rather than a pixel sizing?
Mine is currently 800 pixels wide and I am told that by using pixels to measure the width, I am alienating the smart phone brigade.
Apple’s website is apparently 1000 pixels wide. Is this the optimum width?
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I am told that by using pixels to measure the width, I am alienating the smart phone brigade.
Who told you that?
There is nothing wrong with sizing your site in px - smartphone or not.
What this person is talking about is a fluid site that uses % sizing so that changing browser window sizes flows the pages to fill the browser but this is not a mobile specific thing.
You would need to use an inline layout to properly implement % sizing as it needs to be a % of something - essentially a container that has all your Divs in it. You will need to use CSS positioning to get this too.
I see that your real site is actually at http://www.fstaylor.co.uk/ - any particular reason why your site is in a frameset at thordale.co.uk - cheap hosting?
800px is a bit narrow by todays standards - 960px wide is probably a better starting point but a greater percentage of users have monitors that can display higher resolutions than that.
Have a look at your browser stats and see what your visitors are using.
David
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Also have a read up about ‘Responsive Websites’ which truly react to a range of display sizes from the smallest smart phones to the largest monitors but I do feel that you really need to look at your visitor stats before you jump in to a major site rebuild.
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Free parking and I can’t remember why! It was ages ago tbh.
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Visitor stats are good to see who is currently coming to your site, but I
think there are many good reasons for non-hobbyists to start thinking
mobile. You may not have that many mobile visitors now, but what if you
want to attract more? The market is booming with mobile devices which have
already or are about to have overtaken desktop and laptop browsers just in
sheer numbers… so there never was a better time to start learning these
techniques.
I’d agree that some thought should go into how you want mobile viewers to
experience your site, and then work out how you achieve that instead. I’ve
had a little time to play with FreewayPro and media queries at this
website: http://www.thebigerns.com Not hardly a complete strategy, but it
is helping me to understand what I’m up against for learning how to make a
site responsive.
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Ernie Simpson
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Visitor stats are fine. We are known where we want to be known - there is a limit to how many ponies we have to sell and a bigger audience is not really needed.
But, it is ease-of-use that I want more and to look up-to-date too.
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But, it is ease-of-use that I want more and to look up-to-date too.
That sounds more like a site redesign than a construction method rethink to me.
By all means think more about mobile users but a site like yours does not HAVE to be mobile-centric. And as such doesn’t need to incorporate the latest Media Query techniques.
Think more about being Mobile Friendly.
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