necessity of mobile web sites

WHY CHARITY CARS SHOULD ENHANCE

WEBSITE FOR OPTIMAL MOBILE & TABLET USE

Presented by Michelle Moody

February 2, 2014

Why Mobile & Tablet? Tablet usage has grown 4.5% in 2012

Mobile usage has grown 3.7% in 2012

PC sales were down from 341M to 303M in 2013

Further decline in PC sales estimated to 281M in 2014.

Tablet use estimated to increase 42% in 2014

Mobile use estimated to increase 5.5% in 2014

Mobile’s Impact on Web Design PC screen resolution is

larger than mobile’s Smaller screen = less

content

MOBILE FIRST!!!

“Mobile devices are more than just another customer channel; they represent the most significant evolution in user interactions since the mouse.” - Mashable

Website Technologies for All Platforms HTML 5 allows better streaming of video

on mobile sites and more enriching content.

“If you create your site in HTML5, there are a variety of both open source and commercial tools that will wrap that site with all of the code necessary to run natively, and be submitted to application stores such as iTunes and the Android marketplace,” - Eric Savitz of Forbes.

Bad Examples of Mobile Web Design …

Good Examples of Mobile Web Design …

In Conclusion …

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