{"id":4289,"date":"2015-04-21T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2015-05-04T23:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:58:19","slug":"making-your-website-mobile-friendly-and-google-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2015\/making-your-website-mobile-friendly-and-google-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Making your Website Mobile Friendly and Google Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I was recently asked this question from a student:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you think of Google&#8217;s new rating system to favor search results towards sites which are mobile-friendlier than other sites?  Will there be a course to address this type of mobile-centric design in the future? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we have courses, both on Webmentor.org and on the killervideostore.com. Mobile friendly sites are called &#8216;responsive&#8217; &#8230; because their pages respond and resize based on the device being used to view them. <\/p>\n<p>Our Webmentor courses:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webmentor.org\/course\/introduction-to-twitter-bootstrap\">introduction to Twitter Bootstrap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webmentor.org\/course\/responsive-web-design\">Responsive web design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on the killervideostore:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.killervideostore.com\/video-courses\/responsive-web-design.php\">Responsive web design DVD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I plan on more later this year.<\/p>\n<p>I think Google&#8217;s move makes sense when you think about it. Google always wants to cater to a broader audience, and web surfing is more of a mobile thing today, than it is a desktop or laptop thing. <\/p>\n<p>We ourselves are slowing making our sites responsive, so far the following have been converted:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioweb.com\">Studioweb.com<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmentor.org\">Webmentor.org<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Killervideostore.com\">Killervideostore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I was recently asked this question from a student:<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">What do you think of Google&#8217;s new rating system to favor search results towards sites which are mobile-friendlier than other sites?  Will there be a course to address this type of mobile-centric design in the future? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, we have courses, both on Webmentor.org and on the killervideostore.com. Mobile friendly sites are called &#8216;responsive&#8217; &#8230; because their pages respond and resize based on the device being used to view them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}