When Smaller is Better
12/August/2009
I took a speed reading course and finished War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
Sketchbook piece
It’s no news flash that the number of smartphones, and other small screened mobile devices, is skyrocketing. For the most part, the experience of watching video, or web browsing on the iphone or its ilk, is a good one. It’s no mystery why, the ability to access all of the web from nearly anywhere you go is fantastic. One bit of sand in the vaseline, however, is when a website fails to deliver the goods asap. Overstuffed websites with long load times can be extremely frustrating. What’s even worse though, are those times when clicking on a link leaves you in what seems a perpetual wait for content, only to have something show up cut-off or otherwise unusable.
It’s unfair to blame a, poorly functioning via mobile device browser’s site owner, though. And I say that mainly because I am one. This very site, I must admit, could be a better experience when using a mobile browser.
With that in mind, I have created a version of my website that’s optimized for mobile devices, http://web.me.com/walkerbrushworks/JohnWalkerIllustrationMobile. The site is designed to load fast and present a portfolio of my work that is easy and simple to access using a mobile web browser. There are trade offs naturally, and in this case, not all the content and features found on this site are available on the mobile version. My new work will still be posted to this page, for example, although some blog pieces may find their way over to the News page. Demos and side projects will still be hosted on the main site, as well as the new downloadable portfolio samplers.
Woody Allen
Sketchbook piece
It’s no news flash that the number of smartphones, and other small screened mobile devices, is skyrocketing. For the most part, the experience of watching video, or web browsing on the iphone or its ilk, is a good one. It’s no mystery why, the ability to access all of the web from nearly anywhere you go is fantastic. One bit of sand in the vaseline, however, is when a website fails to deliver the goods asap. Overstuffed websites with long load times can be extremely frustrating. What’s even worse though, are those times when clicking on a link leaves you in what seems a perpetual wait for content, only to have something show up cut-off or otherwise unusable.
It’s unfair to blame a, poorly functioning via mobile device browser’s site owner, though. And I say that mainly because I am one. This very site, I must admit, could be a better experience when using a mobile browser.
With that in mind, I have created a version of my website that’s optimized for mobile devices, http://web.me.com/walkerbrushworks/JohnWalkerIllustrationMobile. The site is designed to load fast and present a portfolio of my work that is easy and simple to access using a mobile web browser. There are trade offs naturally, and in this case, not all the content and features found on this site are available on the mobile version. My new work will still be posted to this page, for example, although some blog pieces may find their way over to the News page. Demos and side projects will still be hosted on the main site, as well as the new downloadable portfolio samplers.