New Design Rules for Mobile-Ready Sites

Google came down hard on some sites for some unknown violation of the rules for mobile-friendliness. Some other mobile and responsive late adopters are probably concerned about design or budget limitations that could work against the user experience.

And there’s this old trope: “I can spot a WP site at five miles off – they all look alike. Making them responsive just makes them boring.”

Phone view is now a requirement for every site, like it or not. Let’s take a look at some great ones, some bare-minimum ones and more.

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About marybaum

2022 Core representative and co-maintainer of a few components. Copy editor for the Core team (I may have tweaked that error message you saw yesterday!) WordCamp speaker, mostly on design and CSS. Direct marketer with a design degree in three things: 1. Don't make it symmetrical. 2. Do make it look intentional. 3. And if you can’t make it good, make it big. Self-taught developer, if you don’t count CSS-Tricks, Know the Code Pro and Wes Bos. Dabbler in online fabric and assorted other product design, and 3D. Tennis, landscape and macro photographer and near-daily tennis player. Grandmother.