Hey
I would really want to push you to completely separate the desktop editor and the mobile editor. It is so irritating when I add an element to desktop and it gets added to mobile anywhere with no way of not make it happen.
We just designed a mobile site in perfect sync with desktop, then we added a strip on desktop to test something and it gets added to the mobile version and crashed the whole design.
If WIX wants to stay at the top in business you should separate these two tools so we can design a mobile site that is NOT 100% connected to the desktop.
Make a object / component bar where all elements are listed but make it possible for us to drag out the elements we want.
So let us disbale AUTO-DESKTOP-MOBILE function and make it the way we want. Connected or separate.
Agreed! This should be a top priority for Wix as mobile users are surpassing desktop users. Wix needs to make their apps more mobile friendly and faster to load. The Auto-desktop-mobile function could still be a recommendation (i.e. optimization button) but really, it needs it’s own customization ability similar to the desktop customization. For example: allow your customers to put high res items on desktop but manage/load lower res for mobile. If offering a Wix Pro Gallery - make and efficient mobile option. Mobile marketing statistics compilation | Smart Insights
Thanks for the feedback folks.
In the meantime, and just in case you didn’t know - You can kind of get the behavior you’re looking for by using a custom router, checking within it whether the user is on a mobile device, and routing to different pages based on that.
That will let you design two completely different pages where you want, and keep the unified version for others.
Hi Uval - could you please direct me to the steps your are referring to for a custom router? I’m not technical which is why I selected Wix. The Wix Gallery Pro is UBER SLOW on the mobile leaving my page white/blank for over 10 + seconds. (speed test on desktop is fine) I have down res’d the images as much as I can on the desktop side - how do I offer a lower image res on the mobile side to speed things up? Or, would it still be slow because of Wix Gallery code? (that’s what a support person told me)
Because routers are an advanced topic and function in Wix Code I highly recommend you to read this article a couple of times before starting with routers in your project.
Then in the routing function to check using formFactor to see if the incoming request is from a mobile device and then you can use redirect 301 to your mobile version of the page. If you create all your pages for mobile in the /mobile/my-page you could setup the redirect to take path and change it and redirect to that page.
Galleries are not fast on any device I believe, try repeaters, they are in my opinion faster.
Hi everybody
Is there a way to programatically determin to render a site as “mobile” or “desktop”, such as to finally enable the user to choose which to use ? Some Sites give this choice to the user, so for example, if she/he is using a tablet, it usually is better to render in “normal” Desktop mode…
