Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
get.foundation/

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.

Using iPhone. Having text and buttons slightly larger is good. I do however like to see in the topic list who the last poster was on a thread and when that post was made. Just makes it easier to see if it's worth going into that particular thread or not.

Thanks for the feedback..

steezy said..
Have you considered going responsive?

It is responsive. Use your mobile, and you'll get a completely different view of the site.

Smithy said..
Using an iPad 4 retina and Safari browser. The text looks just that little bit bigger, back to what is was before the last update, a bit of back to the future really

Not much changed for the iPad, just a few minor tweaks/style - most of the effort has gone into mobiles.

default said..

Using iPhone. Having text and buttons slightly larger is good. I do however like to see in the topic list who the last poster was on a thread and when that post was made. Just makes it easier to see if it's worth going into that particular thread or not.

Shall see what can be done..

Hi Laurie.

Not sure if this is relevant, but on my phone Nokia N900 using MicroBrowser, the site looks no different to when I went into it normally before your changes. Did you put in there mobile recognition tags to switch to m.seabreeze.com.au? Otherwise I think some mobile devices will still just pick up the default HTML as if seen from a PC.
For example, the menu bar at the top only has Weather, Buy & Sell, Forums, Info, Me and Help. Maps, Gallery, etc are not shown. This could be because the sizes of the menu buttons are fixed and not % which would imply the browser tried to compensate and dropped a few for the sake of keeping some options on the one line. The font is much bigger too which is great IMO. But of course who has a phone like mine? No one! Lol. How does it look under Android I wonder?
I'll keep having a look around and see if I can test the site under Android from someone's phone at work.
Cheers

gunny11 said..

The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.

Isn't it fantastic? There is so much awesome new tech. Did plenty of research on mobile frameworks - foundation/ember/angular/jquery mobile/bootstrap/etc etc.

As you say, it's about how the tool is used, rather than the tool itself.

gunny11 said..

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.

You're saying Linux has the power of 10, but turns like a 7?

gunny11 said..

steezy said..

Have you considered going responsive?
I suggest checking out the foundation framework.
get.foundation/

I haven't taken much time to look at the grid structure the site was built on but might require some tweaking to match.
Benefit is no matter the device the website will view perfectly
Not the most cheapest direction but IMO will deliver the best user experience.

Good luck with the build.

The foundation framework is great. I've been using it and it looks sweet on different mobile devices, but it takes a decent bit of work to dev to it where you want it.

Personally I'd ditch Microsoft-IIS/7.5 move to drupal or wordpress on linux - cheaper, faster.

Ohh ok, i was testing the media quarries while resizing the safari window, wasn't seeing any changes.
Tested it on iPhone 5 IOS 7.1, layout is looking good.
Banners are getting squished a little, i would personally stretch these to the full width whilst maintaining ratio when viewing at 320 pixel.

.....on a blackberry bold 9000 it looks like on pc, except I can't see the weather stuff with the arrows. It's a corporate phone so I don't know if some security tuff is blocking it. Bummer because the weather is what I want to see most. Anyway looks like blackberries might be a relic of the past some time soon unless they come up with an ace real quick.

Is there a way to get the text smaller again. I'm trying zooming out in safari (iPhone 5) but it won't do anything. Kinda dislike the obersized text and prefer more info on my screen.
Sorry my 20 year old eyes can still see the small stuff :p

Top job Laurie! Much more friendly!

suniboy21 said...
Maybe you could add
"Forums > Kitesurfing > General"
Short cut option that is at the top of page, to the bottom of the page so that there is less time spent scrolling up to get back to "kitesurfing" main page?
Just a thought.

If you click the "Topics" button at the bottom of the page ... same result.

bmod said...
Loving the site but have a little trouble scrolling on the weather pages -it's slow and jerky. It seems like it is trying to display text time/windspeed every time I try to scroll. It's ok if I pick a point between the graphs. Strangely, if I just tap the graphs , nothing happens - its the opposite of what would be intuitive. Just mildly irritating, not a big deal, but should be an easy fix

Could I ask what phone you have ?

Image Upload
Also, some crew have asked about the "Unable to upload images" when posting via Mobile ... the upload needed a bit of extra work, and didn't make this release, but, it will be available next week, all going well.

I was finding last week if I opened 6 tabs in chrome on android on Samsung, half would work great with good text size and half would start to load with big text, then simply go to white screen. No way back, have to close tab.