Browsing the Internet on your phone?

[Duck, Duck, Goose]

I'm kinda curious, how many of you actually browse the internet (not using any apps like Facebook or Twitter, but the actual browser) on your phones?

I'm building a website right now, and I can't be arsed to find a reason to bother with a mobile version. I use the internet a lot, but 100% of my browsing is done on a computer... I'm sure this isn't the case for everyone though, so I'd like a better feel of what people are doing.

Is it worth it for a primarily text-based, informative website to have a special style for mobile browsers? Is it better to give a smaller, less wall-of-text based page and risk not conveying 100% of the information displayed on the traditional site? Should I just leave it as is, let the phone browsers hopefully not mangle it, and just let people zoom to whatever level they feel comfortable reading at?

[KarthXLR]

Most smartphones are perfectly capable of loading a non-mobile version of a site. I use mine pretty often, actually.

[Duck, Duck, Goose]

Yeah, it's not bad, I've checked on my phone. The only issue I really would need to solve is this nav bar, because 3 or 4 of the 8 options have drop-downs, which act a bit wonky on the touch screen. It's a shame that holding down the screen brings up an app menu, and there's no way to activate a hover state on a touch screen...

[Serain]

I had to develop a mobile version of a website that sounds similar to yours because management insisted on it. They did this when the desktop version was pretty much already done.

We just did away with dropdowns in general since all our menu items were links, but luckily the menus were structured out so that you could basically just navigate through links.

Another thing you could do is use divs to hide your existing nav bar and make a nav bar that is exclusive for mobile. You can also use divs to hide stuff like wide banners and other things that don't scale well.

Whether it's worth it more depends on what kind of website you're running.

[Versus]

i do, and while i can and do look at normal versions of sites, a well-made mobile version is nice

[rumbot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

[WaR1761]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

2nd that, all of our clients sites now are responsive. whole goal is that the user will always assume its built for the device they are using.

http://socialdriver.com/2013/06/10/50-be...s-of-2013/

Watch how elements or content will change and images always resizes to match.

[FlyingMongoose]

All relies on resolution is pretty nifty and you only have to do it once. Also, about 40% of all my browsing.

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