[theme-reviewers] Theme Tag: Responsive

[Emil Uzelac]

"mobile-friendly" is good, no doubt about that, however that is not
what people are searching for.

If we take Google keyword tool for example we'll see that folks are
not looking for these keywords.

"mobile ready design" returns 0 searches, while "responsive web design"
shows about 200K monthly.

Not to disagree over the word "responsive" and I leave this entirely up to
Otto,
however Amy does have a solid point, "responsive" is no longer a fad, it's
a technique.

And it doesn't matter what we think about the word, "responsive" is
here to stay and it will grow even more this year.

Take a look at this link please:
http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2012/05/03/responsive-design-sites-higher-ed-libraries-notables/

My experience is completely opposite from Justin's and I can count on a
single
hand how many clients asked me to build a "mobile-*" design.

Each month I design at least couple of sites and setup between 5-8.

Here's another proof <http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/responsive/stats/>:
tomorrow reaching half a million downloads 13% comes from
WPORG and the rest is from the search engines ;)

Now you be the judge what's really going on.

My 2¢









On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Justin Tadlock
<justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

> I'm on board with a "mobile-friendly" or similarly-named tag but not
> "responsive".  I've set up probably 50+ sites for regular people over the
> past year.  Not a single one of those people knew what responsive meant.
>  Nearly all of them knew what mobile friendly/ready meant.
>
> Also, +1 to possibly overhauling the current tag system and adding more
> user-oriented tags.
>
> On 2/25/2013 8:21 PM, Daniel Fenn wrote:
>
>> Otto has a good point about the word responsive, it would be better if
>> it was mobile-friendly or something like that.
>>
>> Also while we are at it, can we add tags where themes are designed to
>> intergrate with different systems, for example my propress theme where
>> one can use it to have their forum look on their blog as well. (I know
>> it old but I am updating it and I think it almost ready to have the
>> reviewers pick at it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Merci Javier <mercijavier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The whole point of the tag filter is to allow end-users to find things
>>>> more easily. Whether you think it's a buzzword or not, "Responsive" has
>>>> come
>>>> to be *very* widely used in the web design world over the course of
>>>> several
>>>> years. "Adaptive" has not.
>>>>
>>>>  What Amy said.
>>>
>>> +1 on adding "responsive" tag.
>>>
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