First, a little history. According to Wikipedia, it was back in 2004 when Cameron Adams, a web developer, created a “flexible fluid” layout demo. By 2008, related terms such as “flexible,” “liquid,” “flowable,” and “elastic” were being used to describe the designs. It was Ethan Marcotte, another web designer, who coined the term responsive web design (RWD) and defined it to mean fluid grid/flexible images/media queries, in a May 2010 article in A List Apart. He outlined the theory and practice of responsive web design in his short 2011 book titled Responsive Web Design. Responsive design was listed at #1. #2 in the main web design trends for 2012 by the magazine.net. Mashable called 2013 the Year of Responsive Web Design. Many other sources have recommended responsive design as a cost-effective alternative to mobile apps.
So if your website was published before 2012/2013, you should contact your website guys to change it to responsive. To make sure your website is mobile friendly, go to: Mobile Friendly Test – Google Search Console – to test your website.
If your website is managed by a developer/agency, you can have them create a responsive WordPress theme for you, one based on your current theme. But most of today’s topics have the answer option.
On the other hand, you are running your own website and using WordPress, go to your WordPress dashboard and under ‘appearance’ click ‘themes’ and then click ‘install themes’, and in the search box you want to put the keywords ‘responsive’. This will display all the responsive themes and you can then choose the one that is best for your site. After the necessary adjustments, you have it, a responsive and mobile friendly website.
Today, for new websites, most of the available platforms accommodate, so they should only be tested for effectiveness.
Then you might want to check if your site loads fast on mobile devices. There are two steps you can take to make your mobile devices charge faster. Head over to your plugins area and click ‘add new’, then find and install something called ‘WP Smushit’. What this does is compress your images. Image loading on mobile is typically 80 percent of the time. So if you can reduce the size of your images, you can significantly reduce the loading time of a mobile device. Make your site load very fast so that people on mobile devices can see your content without having to wait.
