Tentsocial has put together an updated infographic on the dimensions of graphics you’ll need for your social websites. It’s huge.
Social Media Design Dimensions – An infographic by the team at Social Media Design Dimensions
71% of smartphone users search because of an ad they’ve seen either online or offline; 82% of smartphone users notice mobile ads, 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping, and 88% of those who look for local information on their smartphones take action within a day.
With those statistics at hand and the fact that over 70% of websites do not have a mobile version (including this website, at least today anyway) we have decided that most of our custom design websites should certainly include a mobile version.
What is a responsive website?
According to Wikipedia
Responsive Web Design (RWD) essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets 3 media queries, an extension of the @media rule, with fluid proportion-based grids (which use percentages and EMs instead of pixels), to adapt the layout to the viewing environment, and probably also use flexible images. As a result, users across a broad range of devices and browsers will have access to a single source of content, laid out so as to be easy to read and navigate with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling.
What?
Basically it means that images will shrink, text will appear at a size that doesn’t make you squint, and you don’t just get a version of your website that only shows some things and not others. If you own a smartphone, you have more than likely comes across a site where it’s not mobile optimized so the text is so small you have to pinch and zoom into portions of the site, and you have endless scrolling. Basically it’s a nightmare to try and navigate. If your like me, you’ll click right on back and start looking for the information somewhere else.
I recently launched the real estate industries first fully responsive website for my wife who became a REALTOR for Prudential Platinum here in Pueblo. If you have a smartphone take a look, if you have a tablet, take a look. If you don’t you can always contact me, and I’ll be more than happy to bring both a tablet and a smartphone and give you a demo.
We also just recently revised our MLSSoftware website that is fully responsive. Take a look.
Have a website that you think needs to a little sprucing up just call Rick Thomas at 719-569-0735 and I’ll be more than happy to talk to you about your needs.
You’ve heard the story of the plumber who couldn’t fix his own pipes? Not to disrespect plumbers with that comment, but it’s almost appropriate for our web site. For the past 9 years we’ve been heavily invested in helping real estate agents with a product that in the industry is known as IDX.
IDX basically allows real estate agents to take all the listings in their mls and display them on their website. About 15 years ago I wrote a program to allow auto dealers to display their inventory on their website. I took that program and modified it for real estate agents. Since then we have installed our property search program on hundreds of agent websites across the country.
Because we have been so involved in helping real estate agents we have all but neglected the local Pueblo community and our family of websites.
Out of frustration with the national real estate website vendors, and the maturity of the WordPress blogging system, we’ve been working over the past several months to offer websites again based on that platform. I’ll be writing more about it in the near future but for now, what I’m trying to say here is that we are excited again to be offering web site design. We’re going to help local businesses get their website on the web, or fix their unproductive sites and be their virtual assistants so they can concentrate on what they do best, and leave their web maintenance to us.
Stay tuned …