Hey all.
As many of you know, the website isn't responsive. So when you try to browse the site on mobile, you have to zoom around and it's hard to click on links or view content.
After discussing with Nach, I decided to give a shot at designing a MOBILE version of the site (mobile-only, not a site redisign). This version has less content and it more oriented towards people that want a quick look at what's new and have plenty of YouTube links for easy watching. This is why a lot of content has been stripped down to keep the minimum. This would basically be a redirect from tasvideos.org to m.tasvideos.org when you browse the site on a mobile device.
The project is hosted here:
http://cohanc.com/tasvideos
And the code is open-source:
https://github.com/nahoc10/tasvideos
Screenshot:
Note: this is mostly a proof of concept and I'd like to have your feedback. It uses the site's RSS feed for the content. I haven't put many hours on this, so features may be missing, broken or just ugly. Bear with me please. You're also welcome to contribute on the github repo.
It always annoys me to no end when websites give a mobile version of their pages when browsing with an iPad. Mobile versions of webpages are designed for very small screens. An iPad is not a small screen; it's effectively a normal screen, and in general the normal webpages look and are usable just fine.
looks good imho, and it´s nice to hear that there will be a button to change it back to the normal webpage.
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Isn't the proper solution to change the style based on screen resolution
Screen resolution is a bad indicator nowadays. Many cellphones already use full-HD (1920x1080) resolution. The physical size of the screen is much more relevant than the resolution.
Thank you so much for doing this as a separate version. So many sites just force a mobile-friendly design on you, which makes the experience worse for everyone with a device larger than a phone. That practice should be banned!
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Frequently when coming to the main page I want to quickly skim over the latest publications and submissions, and the current lists do the job perfectly. An option to have something like that (perhaps as a "compact mode") — without embedding the screenshots and descriptions — would be really nice.
As many of you know, the website isn't responsive. So when you try to browse the site on mobile, you have to zoom around and it's hard to click on links or view content.
That's a nice idea; I often use my S5 mini to browse the site and I keep zooming out and in all the time.
Nahoc wrote:
This version has less content and it more oriented towards people that want a quick look at what's new and have plenty of YouTube links for easy watching. This is why a lot of content has been stripped down to keep the minimum.
Please don't assume that anyone using a smartphone isn't interested in accessing all the site contents, especially in the case someone is browsing it for the first time.
Shouldn't be possible to pack nicely all of the desktop site stuff in the screen?
Nahoc wrote:
Note: this is mostly a proof of concept and I'd like to have your feedback.
To put it simply, I just don't like it at all. Your current draft surely has nice text sizes for a smartphone, but for the rest you've just replaced the good old home page with the Recently published movies page, while just adding screenshots and descriptions (which is fine) and:
1) Leaving huge blank spaces on the right of screenshots
2) Showing the rating with a bar but not numbers
3) Desfiguring the screenshots with a YouTube button and... rounding off corners...
Also, what's with the navigation bar stuck on top? It's just plain annoying.
Note: this is mostly a proof of concept and I'd like to have your feedback. It uses the site's RSS feed for the content. I haven't put many hours on this, so features may be missing, broken or just ugly. Bear with me please. You're also welcome to contribute on the github repo.
