Mobile First Design & Mobile Responsive Design.

It’s a fact, more people are using ‘smart phones’ to search the internet, send and receive emails and to buy products online across Adelaide, Australia and the world than doing the same on a PC or laptop.
It will vary slightly across different industry sectors, but generally 80% will look at your website on their mobile phone, with the remaining 20% covering PC’s and laptops.

Websites For Mobile Phones

The importance of good mobile responsive design is now a significant ranking metric used by Google and other search engines.

This means if your website doesn’t render correctly on smaller screen devices you will be penalised in browsers SERP’s.

Placing importance on how mobile phones render websites makes sense because more people are using them to find and read about products and services offered by businesses.

Responsive design for mobile phones has come a long way in the last 10 years. Instead of website designers building websites for desk top screens, then looking at the consequences of what happens when a website is viewed on smaller screen sizes, most website designers are now building websites for mobile or ‘smart phones’ and looking at how it appears when viewed on large screens.

Mobile Responsive Design

With advancements in coding, more elaborate websites can now be built that load fast on small screen devices, with larger images that span full screen on tablets, laptops and desktop PC’s.

Thanks to bigger and faster processors in mobile phones, just about everything can be done on your mobile, which is why many people do use them to access the Internet on the go in the car, or from their lounge chair.

Note: passenger not driver is holding the phone.

Apart from making website pages look good on small screens for visitors, search engine ranking algorithms check how well websites appear and how easy they are to use.
Technically good mobile responsive design, mobile first is now more important if your website is to rank high in search engines such as Google.
If SEO (search engine optimisation) is important to you and it should be, using the latest responsive design coding is an advantage.

All the information you’ve just read is what you’ll hear from other website designers, who lack the skill to code for all screen sizes.

In the beginning, coding standards only made rendering on small screens possible if you specified the actual screen size. There were and still are hundreds of different screen sizes, not only across the different brands of mobile phones but for laptops and yes PC’s, most of which are now 2K widescreen.

Html5 allowed for small screen devices to render websites better. Break-points were set up to force coding changes based on multiple specified widths.

Due to the popularity of mobile phones, coding biased small screen devices.

Next Generation Coding Is Here

As a full-stack software programmer & website developer, Nigel Brookson codes all website designs so they render perfectly on any screen size, regardless of brand or device.
Since January 2022, all websites built by Thinking IT will now cater to widescreen widths of 2048px as a minimum, instead of 1920px (Full HD) as the norm, allowing ‘Hero’ banners to reach full width without any loss of resolution.
Some clients are already requesting 4K dimensions, knowing their customers are using TV’s at home more. This along with VR (Metaverse) is coming.

Take a look at ‘Living Pictures By Tony Stanton’ on any screen size

Website Design On Desktop PC

Living Pictures By Tony Stanton

Website Design On Mobile Phone

Website Design On Laptop

After An Amazing Website Design That Ranks?

Whether you’re looking at upgrading or starting from scratch, provide services or have products you’d like to sell online, Thinking IT can design a stunning website for your business and make sure it ranks on all search engine result pages (SERP).
After discussing your goals and analysing what you require, Nigel will be able to let you know exactly what the costs will be to meet your unique needs.

At Thinking IT, we can handle everything to make your online presence a success. From photography & graphic design services to copywriting your pages & website’s blog, set up automated email campaigns & look after your social media marketing.