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Mobile friendly responsive sites are ones that resize and show their content differently or conditionally when viewed from smaller (mobile) screens

Google lowers the search rankings of non responsive sites
for those searching from mobile devices
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Some attributes of responsive sites:

Resizing pictures, including slideshows, as needed
Rearranging columns as needed. (Multiple columns will not fit on a narrow screen)
Causing the menu to change to when the screen is small, such as replacing an across the top menu with a "..." expansion button
Having links be big and separated -- so they are easy to click by fumbly fingers on a small screen.
Wrapping text as needed
Not showing some "extra" content because it becomes distracting clutter on a small screen.

Some responsive sites:

Try resizing the windows on these sites and watch them change!

What Must Change in HotDoodle to Make a Site Responsive?

New HotDoodle sites are automatically mobile responsive, but classic HotDoodle sites need to be upgraded to use the responsive features.

Examples of the changes needed:

Different themes must be used, ones that include responsive CSS
Custom themes must be redone
Pictures and slideshows need conversions to upgraded blocks and views
Sidebars must generally go bye-bye
Containers (columns) must be upgraded to responsive views
Menus must be upgraded to responsive views
Some text and layout must be reconsidered to be sure it will always flow
Custom graphics must be carefully reconsidered as it will often look bad when resized or repositioned
Some content might be best skipped

As you can see, this is a pretty through redo of the site. A fundamental change has occurred, moving from knowing how the site will be viewed to that of having to handle anything, and a redo is appropriate.

Converting to Responsive

HotDoodle will convert a classic HotDoodle site to a responsive site for 30% less than we would charge if we were developing the responsive site from scratch.