Last Updated on Juni 18, 2024
Creating a mobile-first version of your website
While „Content First“ should be your guiding principle, the term “mobile first” means creating a mobile version of your website first and then expanding to a desktop and big screen. This was a good strategy – twenty years ago. Now you shouldn’t even need to think about it.
The first mobile phone arrived in 1996 when Nokia released the Nokia 9000 Communicator. This was one of the first mobile phones with internet browsing capabilities. Can you remember the first websites you accessed on your phone?
It might seem that it’s a bit late to raise the question of whether to have a responsive website. WordPress themes have been responsive since 2012. Most of us probably can’t remember a time when we didn’t shop, chat, or entertain ourselves without a mobile device either.
Read more about Mobile First in the classic book by Luke Wroblewski and with a foreword by Jeffrey Zeldman (2011)
We’ve moved on from the early days of „Responsive First“ and then to „Device Agnostic“ to today when it’s not even a topic. Your website needs to be accessible. And that’s regardless if someone is using a Tamagotchi or a 10,000-pixel-wide Jumbotron.
Websites, and the tech behind them, need not only be accessible for developers – but for anyone – regardless of their age!
„Google announced the shift to mobile-first indexing in 2016. All the sites that are going to move over to mobile-first indexing are moved as of May 2023.“ https://ahrefs.com/blog/mobile-first-indexing/