Observations from the Road Less Traveled is Now Optimized for Mobile Phones

Posted by Spencer Hope Davis on Nov 4, 2009 in Excellent E-life |

The Observations from the Road Less Traveled (ORLT) blog is now screen optimized for several popular touch screen based mobile phones.* If you have an iPhone, iTouch, Droid, Blackberry Storm, or MyTouch smartphone, simply point your browser to the home page and you’ll be able to enjoy the site on the go.

I’m very pleased with the appearance and functionality of this upgrade. My own smartphone addiction is to the iPhone. I can’t tell you how many times I have tried to access my favorite websites only to be turned off by the difficulty in navigating them on my device. Websites that aren’t optimized show the entire site as if it were on a desktop. This means you have to scroll left and right to see large parts of the site, which can be time consuming and visually frustrating. A mobile optimized website has streamlined the content of the site to important specifics to increase readability and user experience. As you can see from the screenshots above, this is a clean and user friendly interface with great options available:

See blog posts with short excerpts. Touch “Read This Post” to have the entire post fitted perfectly within your screen.

Tab ability to access “tags” and categories for simple searches.

Video plug-in so that any youtube video in a post can be seen from your youtube enabled smartphone with a simple touch of the play button.

Ability to easily share favorite posts on twitter, facebook, and other social media options, including emailing links to friends.

Ability to post comments on posts from your cell phone.

Pull-down menu that allows you to instantly contact me by email, facebook, twitter. Subscribe from your phone.

Remember that if your phone has facebook and twitter applications installed, you’ll have even more of a seamless experience reaching out to the blog on my Facebook and Twitter linked companion pages.

Feel free to send me an email or post a comment below with your feedback on this new upgrade. Bookmark the site on your smartphone and be sure to visit often to see what I’m up to. Subscribe, and receive email notification of posts, which while on your smartphone can be clicked to instantly take you to the optimized site.

*Yes…I will be optimized in the very near future for all phone systems!

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