Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Blog home-pages and mobile-templates: Do they work together?

This article discusses the issues of giving your blog a home page, and how this works for people using mobile devices.



Previously I've described the options in support of giving your blog a "home page", and plus how and why to enable a mobile stencil in support of your blog.

The home-based summon (aka landing page) put out was a challenge with nix fine solution in support of a long instant - until someone cleverer than me dappled the possibility open by the custom-redirect highlight.   With this, you can deposit the content in support of a "home page" into a position or summon, and afterward redirect your blog's "landing summon URL" (www.YourBlog.Blogspot.Com) to it.

However, I allow found so as to if you allow enabled a mobile stencil in support of your blog, afterward this line of attack does not product in support of visitors using mobile procedure.
Instead of the family leaf with the intention of non-mobile visitors think it over, mobile-using visitors are publicized a mobile-specific leaf with:

  •     Your slogan,
  •     The leaf doohickey (if you've used lone - it's not used in this example) as a drop-down catalog
  •     A catalog of tiles - lone placement all (more in this area these below)
  •     An grown-up posts / family / newer posts navigation tool
  •     A link to check over the web-version
  •     A mobile attribution doohickey (unless you've indifferent it)
  •     An AdSense ad-unit, if you be inflicted with deposit AdSense into your blog using the AdSense gadget(*).

There could be approximately uncommon things too, if you be inflicted with chosen the "custom" mobile pattern option and added other gadgets to be publicized on mobile.

But a answer top is with the intention of one home-page custom-redirect with the intention of you be inflicted with fit up does not bring about - even though other custom-redirects (ie not relating your family page) sort out bring about.

(*) The rules pro whether this is publicized or not are in fact a little more complicated - but that's a theme pro a further time!


What do mobile users see on their post-tiles.



The landing summon in support of a mobile user includes a vertical "tiled" register of posts.

 Modish this, both tile has:

  •     The court and position title,
  •     The post-thumbnail photo and
  •     The at the outset only some expressions in support of the position (less than the undivided small piece though) in support of a position.

They are sorted by descending-date - import so as to your on the whole up to date position is by the side of the top of the register.

The applies if  you are using a standard (ie designer) or custom mobile stencil.

The recently-introduced dynamic mobile stencil is another again - in it, the covered position looks more like the "before the jump" outline publicized on your regular blog - but even so, it is still a register of posts sorted in reverse-date order, not a custom home-page.


What this means for bloggers who care about their home page

You can find main things you will want to think about:

  •  Using a mobile template will give you much less expensive control over your mobile landing page - although it could be set up to work effectively if you know the way it operates, of course, if you don't mind your blog resembling your blog, not only a webpage..
  •  If you have a mobile template enabled, so you want mobile visitors to your site to continually see one post first, then you certainly need to ensure this post has always the newest post-date.
  •  With a non-dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors won't see whole posts or prior to the jump post-summaries initially: instead they see even more abbreviated summary tiles.
  •  Using a dynamic mobile template enabled, visitors will discover post-tiles which can be much more the post-summary from your main blog (regardless of whether it's by using a non-dynamic template) - but they still won't see your custom landing page.
If you aren't very pleased with mobile people to your blog post being told a tiled-report on posts, then you should not enable a mobile template - and you ought to disable it if you've already enabled one

This means that people using a smart phone to check out your blog post will see a full-featured version, that they will most likely have to scroll around to view, ie they won't begin to see the whole screen at one glance. Though this sounds painful, in two of my blogs, I've decided that here is the most effective way.

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