1-Minute Wisdom: Does Your Blog Look Good on Mobile?
This is part of my blog series Practical Self-Help for Introspective People.
Hey, friends!
Here’s today’s idea: I’m guessing that most of your traffic comes from mobile users, so check that everything looks good on mobile.
Specifically, look at:
Text sizes
Paragraph lengths
Bullet lists
That last one, bullet lists, surprises many bloggers. The left indentation may cause even short list-items to wrap, making it harder to read.
Images
Do your images look ok? For example, the first draft of one post had a chart which was hard to read on mobile:
Here’s the improved version:
It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough.
Sidenote: Substack makes it easy for me to preview the mobile version of a post before I hit publish.
Example preview:
Take action
Your site doesn’t have to look perfect on mobile. It just has to be good enough.
So take 30 seconds and look at it. You'll be glad you did.