The biggest difference between Mobify and competing services (developer toolkits, plugins, site builders, native apps) is our users, the web design community. We go to great lengths to make sure that anybody with basic CSS knowledge can create fantastic mobile views for pretty much any website. We get a lot of letters with questions, comments and feedback about Mobify. It’s a great learning experience that lets us find out more about how the toolset is used. Today we want to share some of the recent feedback we received:
Amy: I’m compiling a short list of things I think could be improved…but overall, your service is such a time-saver. Designing and developing for mobile devices is still such a grey area and no two developers have been able to give me a consistent approach. I will certainly use Mobify again. Once I gain mastery of this, I’d be glad to work with clients who want to Mobify their site.
Sasha: “I don’t know what you have in mind for further development of the platform but if this help at all, I have a few suggestions. It may be useful to have specs for things like: 1. what size (px) should a website icon be (the one that becomes a bookmark on most mobile devices); 2. providing display widths (px) for each mobile device in design view. These things surely help us, designers. All in all, I’m happy with my experience and will continue using Mobify.”
Antone: “I am a designer rebuilding my website and looking to add a service for optimizing sites and designs for mobile devices. I tested the app with my site and think it is fantastic! I cannot wait to see what direction my affiliation with your company can go in.”
Carolyn: “I’m still plodding my way through learning my way around. So maybe after I’m an expert on the tool, I can provide more thought out feedback. So far some of the dificulties I found were keeping an uploaded image (or URL linked) banner – if I made other changes to the main content area. Eventually I gave up on that one with the Conf site and just made a text style banner. I’ll keep playing with that one – cause it certainly isn’t a major issue to me.
The other one that we are still playing with and testing before finishing the site up is my coworker isn’t able to get the redirect to the mobile for his device. He’s running a Blackberry 8330 on V4.3.0.124 platform 3.1.0.71. Could he have some personal setting that tells his device to override mobile sites – or is his not picked up the javascript redirect?”
Anthony: I came across Mobify from css-tricks, amazed at how well their site looked on my phone. Since the process looked so simple, I thought I may as well throw together a mobile version of the site since I had some spare time, I’ll be looking at improving it with a better heading and adding the WordPress plugin for the news posts too. 10 minutes later and I’d got something basic together, who would have guessed?
Kevin: Mobify looks fantastic and as a web developer, I will likely use it in the future when a client is intersted in going mobile. I was very excited when I found it. Attractive site design, by the way!
I don’t think it’s quite right for us though. We’re looking for something we can host onsite. Perhaps you should consider offering a premium version of Mobify, allowing users to not have to deal with redirects by letting them host themselves.
Keep sending your feedback and suggestions to team at mobify dot me!
