[theme-reviewers] Theme Tag: Responsive

Emil Uzelac emil at uzelac.me
Wed Feb 27 04:35:05 UTC 2013


Dedicate more time to WPORG and my TRT duties.
WP Consulting and web design continues as well.

Emil


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats Emil, Whats next.
> There should have been an auction :)
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Paul I really appreciate that :)
>>
>> Emil
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Paul Appleyard <paul at spacecat.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Congrats, Emil!
>>>
>>>
>>> https://cyberchimps.com/2013/02/cyberchimps-acquires-themeid-and-responsive-wordpress-theme/
>>>
>>> .. probably the wrong list for this but I thought it was worth a *wave*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26/02/2013 3:28 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>>
>>> "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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