{"id":272,"date":"2014-03-23T08:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2015-06-11T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T11:13:57","slug":"reponsive-sites-what-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/reponsive-sites-what-on-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Responsive sites – what on earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"h\"<\/a>Is your site responsive<\/strong>?\u00a0 Do you know what a responsive site is?\u00a0 They are all the rage and with good reason.<\/p>\n

A responsive site is one which changes automatically<\/strong> to allow your website to be viewed on different device types.\u00a0 No longer is the desktop PC king.\u00a0 Instead laptops, tablets and mobile phones are starting to take over for day to day Internet use.<\/p>\n

In every study the smartphone is increasing its share of searches on the web.\u00a0 I’ve seen a few studies that show that over 45% of people<\/strong> are now using the smartphone\/tablet as their primary source of research<\/strong>.\u00a0 Which has big implications for you as a website owner.\u00a0 If you’re not addressing these people then your missing out in a big way.<\/p>\n

It’s important to have a website that works well on tablet, smartphone, laptop and PC.\u00a0 You can’t just have one thing.\u00a0 You need them all.\u00a0 Study after study shows that the lack of a mobile site causes harm to brands and in some cases can loose sales.\u00a0\u00a0 For the small website owner though this can be a big problem.\u00a0 It’s fine for the big companies that can afford to have different sites for different devices but for the small of medium website it’s not a viable option – the cost is too great!<\/p>\n

At Websites4Christians we overcome this by building responsive websites that automatically scale.\u00a0 This means you church, charity or Christian website is going to look great across all formats.\u00a0 It’s not a perfect solution for that you need separate sites but for the majority of websites it provides an excellent solution.\u00a0 If you want to see it in action have a look at our site www.websites4christains.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Resize the browser window and watch the site change to fit.<\/p>\n

\"screens<\/a>Now not all website providers are equal.\u00a0 You can get websites from lots of places and many, many companies offer website builder systems and hosting.\u00a0 So when you go looking check that it works in a responsive mode.\u00a0 Check that the look and feel for your website is going to work across all the devices and make sure that the company can deliver that.<\/p>\n

Finally if you’re in any doubt about the need for a responsive site, just look around.\u00a0 Look at the people on the bus and the train.\u00a0 People on their daily commute.\u00a0 They are searching right now on their devices.\u00a0 They are looking for information to keep them going.\u00a0 Could that be information about your church, your Christian organisation, your Charity?\u00a0 Are you missing our on the donation, the new visitor and the possible new contact? Can your site deliver to them?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is your site responsive?\u00a0 Do you know what a responsive site is?\u00a0 They are all the rage and with good reason. A responsive site is one which changes automatically to allow your website to be viewed on different device types.\u00a0 No longer is the desktop PC king.\u00a0 Instead laptops, tablets and mobile phones are starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites4christians.com\/our-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}