Land n Sand Sep / Oct 2013 | Page 60

Is Your Website Ready for Summer? by: Vanessa Swanepoel The long nights and cold rainy days of winter are abating. It’s spring and people are coming out to enjoy the sunshine, our wondrous outdoors and the company of friends. Soon it will be summer and many people will be setting off for their annual holidays. More and more people will be using their mobile phones to access the Internet. What does your website look like on a mobile phone? What does it look like on a Blackberry, a Nokia, an iPhone 4 or an iPhone 5? What does it look like on an iPad or tablet? Hopefully it doesn’t look like it does on a desktop computer or a laptop. Hopefully you don’t have to scroll down or sideways or zoom in and out incessantly. Hopefully it looks good and is easy to navigate no matter what device it is being accessed from. If it isn’t, you should make sure it is. Not just because its summer and more people are outdoors but because it’s the 21st Century and more and more people are accessing the Internet from their mobile devices. In fact there are probably millions of people who will only ever access the Internet from their phones or tablets. It is becoming vital that websites are compatible with multiple devices.