I finally practiced the advice I preach to clients — Design for Mobile First, The Browser is Dead — and installed a plug-in for this blog which should make it much more smartphone and tablet friendly.
I used WPTouch Pro from BraveNewCode. Spent $40 bucks and now the site looks a lot nicer on my ‘droid.
I’ll mess with it some to get things customized, but at least it’s readable.
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The better way to handle mobile now is by using responsive design. CSS3 allows us to target specific screen widths for presentations using the @media variable.
More over, with the Ipad’s retina display, we now need to look at offering increased pixel density for that device.
If you were to look at doing a new design for any site now, I’d strongly suggest it ought to consider all the devices. The WPTouch (which I use on allthingscahill is a good solution if you don’t redesign everything.
We’ve kind of ended up back where we came from: designs for specific devices (remember the old Netscape vs. IE wars?). I blogged about it on my new company site here http://cahilldigital.com/web-design/welcome-to-retina-stan