Designing for mobile/tablets - worth it?

[MadCat]

Given this thread here, I figured I'd throw a new one up just to not clutter the old one up.

Personally I believe it's a good idea to stay with the times, as it were. A little browsing around on adult sites still makes me shudder because many of them use HTML 4 (if that), and are coded up in early 2000's style. Sure, it will render, but it doesn't do much for mobile, tablets, or even netbooks which have a lower screen resolution that most desktops these days.

Considering desktops, seeing things at 1920x1080 resolutions is not a rare thing these days either, and unfortunately a lot of sites look like total ass when viewed in resolutions like that.

Responsive layouts solve a lot of that, and make sure that a site that looks great on a desktop also looks great on a tablet - and I feel that's important.

After all, porn purchases are generally impulse buys - I don't know a single person who'd say "yes, I'm going to go look for some porn to buy today". How are you going to get someone on a tablet to get all impulsive and buy something if they can't properly browse your site?

My biggest peeve is opening a site on my phone (whether it be mainstream or adult) and not being able to browse it without a lot of zooming and fiddling around - I'll just close it and visit some other site with the same content who does have a mobile friendly layout.

Google considers your site's mobile friendliness as part of it's ranking these days, and not only is that a rather clear sign that it's worth designing for mobile, it also means that it's now a significant enough factor one has to deal with.

I've said this before a few years back, but I'll say it again: it's 2015; use the technology that's available right here, right now, instead of sticking to what we knew worked in 1999.

That'll be my 2 cents