I am not sure in which forum to post this, for the sake of full transparency, this post is about my website Redeempens.com. But it's not really a For Sale post either.
This post is about the mobile-device -friendliness of a website and my experience in addressing this matter.
It came to my attention for some time now, that when I look at the tracking of the visitors (a.k.a Google Analytics), more than 50% of visitors to my website use their phone instead of computer, and I'd be the first to admit that redeempens.com before this change I'm posting about, is not mobile friendly.
The website was designed to be used on a comfortable and wide computer monitors, in which case the site works well by displaying the list of the pens on the left, and when one is clicked, the right side of the screen will show you the details of the pen.
On a phone, due to small screen, when you click on a pen, you'd have to scroll down past the pen lists to see the details of the pen.
I hated that, and even worse, I knew that some visitor would just exit the site because it made no sense when used on the phone screen;
but I didn't have time to fix it last year.
Until late last week, I changed the behavior so now, if you want to know the detail about a pen, just click on the list, and instead of having to scroll down, the detail of the selected pen would be displayed as a pop-up window. Exactly as it should be.
This is a screenshot from my phone:
It's not perfect, I still have to tweak the sizing so you don't have to swipe left and right to see the whole information, but it's a lot more usable on the phone now.
What's the point I'm trying to make here?
I think, those of us who has a website, must cater to the visitors using phones due to the convenience of it.
I know this is not strictly about pens, and I apologize if anyone is bothered by it. But, I feel that this is something that more and more pen people would be affected with either as visitors or website owners.
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