Making my own Variant. Points to Ponder

[bwood]

I'm one of those who likes to design without the use of a template; and I'm working on a iphone variant. The site looks good on any tablet but what a learning experience.

- I will no doubt have to have a drop down menu - for sure.

- My fonts have to be huge! 18 points in arial still looks small. Do I go to a 20 point font?

- images I find have to be at least to the edge of the page

- stretch works well for headers - I will not have a lot of moving parts on this one.

- wondering if a supersite might serve this variant better.

Any more ideas for constructing from scratch. I upload then look at my phone - back and forth and so forth!

[behzad]

Make your smallest variant at 700 px. This will eliminate the scrolling horizontally placed new iphones x's. Keep your fonts 20px plus. I use 24px. that way I keep it for all variants. I always leave a few pixels for margins for both desktop and mobile. Check my concern with mobile pages not fitting on new iphones in the Dear Xara section.

https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...one-X-and-Xara

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Bill,

and I'm working on a iphone variant

First question would be what iPhone model?

What about Android users?

Xara doesn't create responsive websites.

[bwood]

Thanks Egg and behzad. I guess I've got more to think about. Looks like a 750 by 1334 would be a nice average. It's not going to be perfect for all phones. Just presentable. My latest stats indicated that 70% are now viewing on tablets and phones. Seniors on tablets, the remainder on young people.
I've got my font points right at 24. Working on a nice drop down navigation presently. The super smooth sites I admire greatly. They just work so well. Not sure if I can get there not knowing CSS but Xara helps.