When coming up with strategies for your church website design, you absolutely have to consider the mobile design of your site. It is said that more than 50% of all website traffic is on mobile devices. Google uses mobile-first indexing, which means that they’re looking at the mobile version of your site to determine where it should rank in search results.
These two facts should be enough to encourage you to prioritize your church mobile website design—and we’re here to show you just how easy it can be!
Adopt a Mobile-First Mentality
When designing church websites, most experts advise adopting a mobile-first mentality. So, when you’re creating your site, you should ideally create the mobile version of your site first and then develop your desktop site. Many web designers use the Bootstrap framework to make mobile web design easier.
If you’re not comfortable doing that yet, or if your church website is already built, you can still adopt a mobile-first mentality. Spend time reviewing and testing your mobile site, making sure text is readable and images are properly sized.
Use Mobile-Responsive Themes
If you’ve been overwhelmed so far, the good news is that most website builders feature mobile-responsive themes that automatically adjust your church website design to fit mobile screens. So, at the very least, if you’ve designed a solid desktop site, you’ll have a mobile design that works well and is formatted correctly.
Church360° Unite comes with multiple customizable themes for your church to choose from—and each theme is mobile responsive! Remember: Google is looking at your mobile site to determine where to rank you in search results, so picking a site theme that's mobile responsive makes a big difference in your church’s discoverability in search results.
Utilize White Space
It can be hard to properly utilize white space on a mobile site’s design since there’s far less space to work with. However, it’s still important to ensure there’s a proper balance between the text, images, and empty space on each page.
White space is the space in a design that doesn’t have any elements on it—so no text, images, or graphics. Having ample white space prevents your site from feeling overcrowded and increases the readability of the text on your site.
While you won’t have as much white space on your church mobile website as you do on your desktop site, you can still include as much empty space as you can to ensure maximum readability and flow.
Hide Extra Elements
One way to ensure you have enough white space is to hide non-essential elements on your mobile design. It might seem obvious, but mobile website designs have a lot less space than desktop designs. To prevent your church mobile website from feeling crowded, don’t be afraid to hide non-essential elements that are overcrowding your mobile design.
For example, if you have two images in one section on your desktop design, you might want to hide one of those to save space. Or, maybe your header font size is too big for your mobile design, causing line breaks in the middle of a word—then, you’d want to adjust the header font size across mobile.
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