CSS code for making your font size and line height responsive.
Site Still Not Mobile Friendly? This is Your Last Warning.
Last year, Google changed it’s algorithm so that websites that were mobile responsive would rank better. If your website isn’t mobile friendly, you might have seen a small decline in your Google ranking. Now Google has announced that beginning in May, they’ll start rolling out an update to mobile search results that increases the effect…
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Going Responsive: To Customize Your Current Template or Use a New Theme?
Recently Google has given me a brand new job. And by that, I don’t mean I actually got a job at Google. (I wish, right?) I mean Google’s new algorithm is keeping me busy converting old WordPress themes to a responsive design. On April 21, 2015, Google started giving preference in mobile results to those…
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Converting to a Responsive Theme
I recently was asked this question: “I have the TwentyTen theme that is not responsive. Is it difficult to convert to a responsive theme or do I need to start from scratch?” Here’s my answer: It depends how much you have customized the theme. If you are using a default WordPress theme pretty much “out…
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How to Make YouTube Videos Responsive in WordPress
I just found this great article that uses only CSS to make videos responsive: http://www.wpstuffs.com/youtube-videos-responsive-wordpress/ Here’s the gist: Add this to your style.css file: .video-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .video-container iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }…
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Another Reason your Website MUST be Mobile Friendly
I speak a lot about responsive or mobile friendly web design, I’ve always told my clients it’s a non-negotiable. It’s more expensive and time consuming, but if you’re spending money to build a website, you might as well capture your full audience. With 60% of web traffic now coming from mobile*, why would you leave…
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Responsive Design-Should I Use It?
These days, I get a lot of questions about responsive web design. The main two are “Should I use it?” and “What exactly is it?”. The first answer is easy – YES, YES, YES! The second takes a little longer to explain, but here’s some things to consider. Responsive web design means that the layout…
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