Spero Consulting

We are happy to announce that we have added a new web site exten­sion, Spe​r​o​Con​sult​ing​.mobi, which pro­vides an “opti­mized” expe­ri­ence for vis­i­tors view­ing our site on a (mobile) cell phone.

“Phone vis­i­tors” who enter the site via either the .com or .mobi exten­sion, are now auto­mat­i­cally redi­rected to a scaled-​down, graphics-​free design theme. That speeds page load­ing and reduces data-​related costs and should be more leg­i­ble for those tiny screens.

Com­puter users on desk­tops, lap­tops, etc., can view the new mobi-​optimized theme using the “switch site” wid­get on the left, and phone vis­i­tors can use the gen­er­ated bar code to save the site in their phone.

If you are a reg­u­lar vis­i­tor, please let us know how it looks and runs on your cell phone, includ­ing whether the con­tact form loads and is usable.

P.S. As you can imag­ine, each cell phone will dis­play each theme dif­fer­ently. Visit ready​.mobi to see an cell phone emu­la­tor for four or five dif­fer­ent phones.

That issue of non-​standard appear­ance per­me­ates design deci­sions for reg­u­lar .com sites, too. Con­sider how all of the dif­fer­ent com­bi­na­tions of desk­top and lap­top and net­book mon­i­tors, screen sizes, set­tings, graph­ics cards, browsers, and light­ing con­di­tions show each web page dif­fer­ently, and then appre­ci­ate that design­ers must pro­duce an optimal-​looking site (on the client’s machine), which must be robust across the rea­son­able com­bi­na­tions of those items. By “rea­son­able,” we mean that if a vis­i­tor is using a mono­chrome 600 x 400 screen mon­i­tor, then they are unlikely to pay our con­sult­ing or design rates; so, we’re not par­tic­u­larly wor­ried about their vis­i­tor experience.

P.P.S. This is def­i­nitely some­thing that we will offer to our web design and devel­op­ment clients.