How To Plough On A Mobile Subject / Template For Blogs Inward Blogger

This article explains why mobile mattes for some blogs (but non all), what tools Blogger has provided to assistance amongst this, too how to develop a mobile topic (aka template) for your blog.  It also links to Google's mobile testing tool, which shows yous how your spider web log looks on a mobile device.



This article explains why mobile mattes for some blogs  How to plow on a mobile topic / template for blogs inward Blogger
By default, when individual uses a smartphone, tablet or other mobile device to human face at your blog, they encounter the "full site" only similar they would if they were using a PC.   The pages aren't develop to move good on their small-scale screen, but they convey access to all the features too gadgets you've installed.

In some cases, this is fine.  For example, when I commencement wrote this article, I looked at the statistics for this site and hardly whatever of the visitors were mobile.   However now, a distich of years afterwards things convey changed too I've implemented a mobile topic for this blog.

But for other blogs, specially ones that convey maps too other location-information or which people read on the go, having a mobile-friendly topic is really important:   for example, on my public-transport blog, over 25% of visitors are using mobile, too that figure is growing.  Making my site move good for these visitors is definitely of import for its long-term time to come (and my brusk term advertising revenue!)


What's available

Blogger convey made a laid of mobile themes, to fit the measure Designer Themes, too hence far only i to fit the Dynamic theme(s).

We cannot command the layout of gadgets on these - when the concealment is only 300-ish pixels wide, there's non much room to move.

But nosotros tin flame add too take gadgets, too also past times choosing a custom template larn color settings that fit our principal blog.


How to enable a mobile topic / template for your blog

Log in to Blogger using an draw of piece of job concern human relationship amongst administrator rights to the blog.

Go to the Themes tab.

If your spider web log has a Designer or Dynamic theme, hence in that place volition hold upwards a Mobile option to the correct of the "Live on Blog" area.



If the spider web log is non develop to purpose a mobile topic ,then the give-and-take Disabled will hold upwards inward the middle of the painting exhibit expanse - although it may hold upwards difficult to read if your base of operations template (chosen inward the Live on Blog area) has a painting exhibit behind it.

Click on the gear-wheel underneath the painting exhibit to encounter the mobile options.

Select "Yes.  Show mobile template on mobile devices."



Either larn out the mobile template on Default, or select i of the other options.
  • If yous select Default, your mobile template volition purpose the measure template matching your desktop template.
  • If yous select Custom, your mobile template volition purpose the colour-scheme too diverse features from your desktop template, too yous volition hold upwards able to makes changes to these settings.

Use the Preview push if yous desire to encounter what your spider web log volition human face similar amongst the selected template on a mobile device.

When yous are happy amongst your selection, press Save.


What your readers see

Visitors to your spider web log who are using a desktop PC (or laptop or netbook or whatever other car amongst a full-size screen) won't encounter anything different.

Readers who are using an internet-enabled cellular telephone (ie smartphone), tablet, iPad, etc volition encounter a dissimilar view:
  • They won't convey a sidebar
  • The gadgets volition hold upwards limited (unless yous add together some extra ones) too inward the header too footer only
  • On the home-page in that place volition only hold upwards the title, thumbnail too snippet for each post, too a push for read-more (this is irrespective of where you've set the jump-break) - notice that the commons methods of giving your spider web log a home-page don't ever work.
  • Custom styles that yous convey added to the template may non hold upwards applied (this has happened on i spider web log where I purpose styles, I'm nonetheless investigating whether it's a characteristic of all mobile templates, or only due to the means I added these detail styles).
  • There volition hold upwards buttons at the bottom of the page for Home, <   too > .    I mean value that the latter 2 refer to older too newer posts (though possible they are the contrary means only about from what I expect).
  • There volition hold upwards a link to "view spider web version", which lets your visitor switch to to encounter the spider web log using the desktop template.

I convey a  feeling that in that place may hold upwards another differences also - really great to necessitate heed almost any others you've spotted.


Seeing what your mobile readers see

The absolute best means that I've constitute to accurately experience my blogs every bit mobile visitors encounter them is to purpose a mobile device myself:
  • Just similar preview manner inward the Post-editor, the mobile preview mode shows a "look too feel" view, which is non exclusively accurate.   For illustration inward the painting exhibit above, it shows business office of the most-recent article insteaod of only the post championship too mini-snippet that I encounter when I human face at the site on my phone.
  • The screen-size testers that I've tried out (ie software tools that mimic showing your website inward diverse dissimilar concealment sizes) don't truly purpose the mobile template - I suspect that this is due to the means that Blogger detects mobile devices.

However yous tin flame encounter whatever spider web log every bit it would hold upwards on a mobile device past times appending /?m=1 to the halt of the URL.    For example, to encounter this spider web log inward mobile, I would human face at http://inaredhouse.blogspot.com//?m=1      If you're going to purpose this approach, it's best to re-size your browser window hence that it's almost 300px broad - from my netbook, that's almost 1/3 of the concealment size, but it would hold upwards less from machiens amongst bigger screens.


Another approach is to purpose Google's Mobile Friendly Testing tool, which will
... analyze a URL too study if the page has a mobile-friendly design.
As good every bit showing yous how your spider web log looks, it also reports on whatever issues that convey been found.






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