Week 471 - See it on your phone - 08-23-2015
Big Rig Bible on your Phone
Today more people in the USA access websites on their phone than on
their desktops. And this trend will only continue. Here is what our
Home Page looks like on a desktop.
If you are viewing this on your phone right now then it actually
looks like this! The text is tiny especially for mature eyes! And
the link buttons are pretty difficult to click with your finger.
To give our viewers a better experience, we have implemented
Responsive Web Design (RWD). This means that our site content will
adjust to fit your phone. Big Rig Bible has 698 pages as of today
(08-23-2015). It took dozens of hours to reformat all the pages and
photographs to look good on a phone. But now you can easily access
our site by phone, tablet or your desktop. The desktop experience
will always be the best with larger pictures but now you will not
have to scroll sideways on your phones. Vertical scrolling will
always be necessary as we have not cut out any content for the phone
formats.
The phone home page now looks like this. The text is readable
without coke-bottle glasses and the buttons are large for easy
finger touches. We eliminated the nice photo of Avila Beach with
the MotherShip and Ben and Sid's Ralphie but all the content you
want is still available.
If you want to see the desktop version of the site, on your phone,
just turn it to landscape position and you will see the entire
desktop page. On on larger phone like our Samsung Note, it is
usable, but glasses will make the experience more fun!
Most pages do not eliminate information like the Home Page. Compare
the desktop view of Palm Creek Golf and RV Resort with the phone
view.
Desktop View
Phone View has all the information with nice large text and
photos.
All of our RV park listings link to the website for the park.
Some of these park sites will also display nicely on your phone, but
many will not. This will change over time, especially if you tell
them to hire us to implement RWD on their site. Enough of the
shameless plug.
With almost 700 pages converted to RWD, we may have not done a
perfect conversion of every page. Please let us know if any page on
your phone has text too small or links that your fat little fingers
make it difficult to navigate.
Now, enjoy Big Rig Bible on your Little Big Phone.
Next week we'll show you some ways to find information that you
"just know is on our site" but can't seem to find.
Love, Pete, Ellen and Mandy