Optimizing your website for the mobile platform is quick, simple, and painless. You’ll just need to go to General Settings->More Actions->Manage Site->Automatically adjust for mobile phones. Like I said: quick, simple, and painless. Once you’ve completed that task, you can preview your site with the Preview as viewer option (also under More Actions). Here are a few of the more obvious adjustments Google’s new function will make to your web page(Android Central):
- Aligning the header layout and top bar
- Fitting the width of the site to match the device’s width
- Smart handling of sidebars, horizontal navigation, and dropdown links
- A revamped Sites dashboard, optimized for mobile viewing
- Granting the user more control over the links that appear in the page footer in order to save space ( good for mobile users who don’t really have a lot of viewing space to begin with)
Gotta say, I’m impressed with Google’s initiative here. Hopefully other hosts and domains start to follow their example. Mobile phones have gotten too huge to simply ignore them, and with more and more people surfing the web on their handset, many sites are going to have to either optimize or be left in the dust. That’s my prediction anyway- take it as you will. The service works with iOS 3/Android 2.2 or higher.
(Via Android Central)
