Going Mobile

So now that I am blogging again, thinking back to the old blog, I spent a significant amount of my website time tweaking the look and coming up with new designs occasionally.  This time around, I’m spending nearly 0% of my time on design, instead utilizing the canned themes that come with wordpress.  Probably the main reason why I decidedto go this route is due to how most people read blogs.

I don’t have any statistics, but I can tell you personally, that I read absolutely none of blogs I read regularly on their website.  Google reader is just way too handy.  So I feel like spending a lot of time on design is fun and visually satisfying, but I think a lot of people never see it.

When I starting picking through the themes for this blog, I had very few requirements: simple, mostly white, as few columns as possible, degrades to a mobile browser nicely.  The last part was the trickiest for me.  I like to use a lot of images in web design, but they don’t always play nice on the screen of some random non-smart phone.  It also makes your site slightly less accessible.

This theme was ok for what I wanted, but I wasn’t sure about the whole mobile browser part.  Well, I’m proud to say that I now have Wordpress Mobile Edition running, which serves a mobile friendly theme for this site when you visit on a mobile device.  It also has a touch version which works awesome on my iPhone.

Add to that the release of Wordpress for iPhone and you got yourself a pretty damn mobile-friendly site.  Now while I can update the site from my phone now, I doubt I’ll be pecking out too many essays on the iPhone’s keyboard.  I will continue to use twitter for quick, up to the minute type updates, but if we are on vacation or somewhere without our trusty iMac or MacBook, than you can be sure that we will be blogging from our phones instead.