Is there any ability to hide the HTML5 game in KiK on certain devices/OSes?
"to hide" means not to show the game in KiK search results.
Thanks,
No, this is not possible. Think of it as any other search engine where it'll just go out and find what's available and categorically offer that up to users.
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Netflix recommended video trailers play sounds even without the user interacting with the page first. How?
According to this article, Chrome allows autoplay for over 1,000 sites where they see that the highest percentage of visitors play media with sound. And Netflix is also whitelisted.
Can the valid amp page be not optimized for mobile devices?
I have the next problem.
I have an amp page
Why do I have this label? Is it possible?
First of all, Yes, it is possible. That is why you got it.
Have a look, below is an amp url.
This is what it shows on mobile friendly test.
So, validating amp only validates its test amp tags' syntax, but does not automatically improves design. Design is at your end.
So, if a page is valid amp, does not imply it has good design, so, does not imply it is mobile friendly.
Also, for the sake of completeness, if a page is mobile friendly, does not imply is is valid amp page.
You can run mobile friendly test here and find the particular issues which is making it a non mobile friendly.
After you fix the issues listed in the test, you can re-run the test and if it show a green flag, you can submit it for the new design.
First time developing a responsive website for my restaurant. I have a link on my navbar that says "Locate Us". I was thinking that when the mobile phone user clicks that link, it will give them directions to the restaurant via the phone's GPS or something.
I don't know much about this. What is the current industry standard for helping users find a restaurant or business via their mobile phone? Do I just make a regular link to a google map or is there something better?
Note: I'm using Bootstrap.
in modern browsers there is the possibility to do geo-location lookups.
you could then link this kind of stuff to an external map application or implement it yourself with googlemaps or thelike.
here is a well made article about geolocation: http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html
If I were you I'd keep it simple and use the built in HTML5 <address> tag:
<address>
<span>Street Address</span>
<span>City, State ZIP</span>
</address>
Most smart phones will make <address> blocks click-able and preset the user with options as to how to handle the address (i.e. with Google Maps, etc).
Is there a way to use responsive design principles with Google Sites. Has anyone tried that. Could you direct me to a sample site. I looked at this google help topic but then that is supposedly about exclusively mobile sites.
My main focus is a normal website which is optimized for web rather than primarily a mobile site.
Alternatively would Blogger be a better option in this case as that allows to change CSS.
I think your negative impression is right. It doesn't implement the features you'd expect in responsive design.
The key to your question is that Google Sites don't use a viewport declaration (meta viewport in the head element). If you don't have that, then device browsers treat you as a legacy desktop-only website. They assume you'll break completely below ~830px, and set a page min-width accordingly. That doesn't sound much like responsive design to me.
Google Sites don't let you write your own CSS or HTML HEAD, so you can't implement a more responsive design yourself.
To be fair, you can choose to not set a fixed page width. Also navigations buttons will reflow on relatively narrow windows, if you're using the "horizontal navigation" feature. The latter isn't great design but at least it's degrading gracefully.
There is an option "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones" under Manage site -> General. However many people suggest it's better not to use it :). I tried enabling it on an old site, previewing the page, and selecting "preview in mobile". At least on Firefox on my original netbook (800px width), it was not responsive. It didn't expand to use the 800px screen properly.
As an aside, the line-wrapping (or absence of it) is a pre-existing issue with my site. You could blame this on me for not testing it :). However it illustrates a limitation of the WYSIWYG editor in Google Sites. It doesn't show, check for, or filter out the formatting that causes this problem.
Mobile yes, responsive no.
I was messing with Google Sites today and you can make a site mobile friendly (I had to come here to get started!). I just used the "Blank Template" to mess around with.
You do need to activate (like others that have mentioned):
Options (gear icon) > Manage site > (scroll down to Mobile) Check.. Automatically adjust for mobile phones. Yeah, let's bury that option way down at the bottom!
Considering the whole mobile "push" Google implemented in the spring of 2015 this should be ON by default for any newly created Google Site.
Just selecting that option makes an OK (basic) mobile site. Not a responsive site. So on my iPhone it does scale photos correctly to fit the device and switches the main horizontal menu to the "hamburger" icon/menu. But collapsing the desktop browser window does not produce responsive results.
https://sites.google.com/site/rwstws51/
As a test, I uploaded a way too large photo (2.5mb) to see what would happen. Running the site through Google PageSpeed Insights it did not display any "optimize photos" warning, so seems to serves up an optimized photo for phones and desktops.
I guess the basic theme is actually called "Ski." I tried out the "Legal Pad" theme and it was totally borked on mobile. I think due to the header and content area background images.
To me Google Sites is ideal if you are already heavy into Google's other products... drive, docs, Google+, webmastertools, analytics, etc... As it has links to add those types of items when editing. Or need a quick site for collaborating as you can easily set the site access like YouTube,Drive items.
Also, you are very limited as to what html you can added. Trying to add a script tag gets stripped out when attempting to save. So again depending on the use there are definitely other options out there.
The answer applying to old "Classic" google sites is NO.
If you create your own custom HTML forms with apps script, you can add the #media viewports etc to the css for those pages/forms,so that helps...
but the google site frame around overrides custom css attempting
responsive design at the page level.
now a days its possible to make a responsive Google Site. since Google has enhanced this feature "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones" option in the Manage Site option button.
to find the option- go to> Manage Site> General> , in the general settings page's lower portion you can see a radio button named "Automatically adjust site to mobile phones". Just tick the radio button & u have enhanced the feature.
Refer an example site made with responsive Google site www.jyotiprokashmusic.com
I'm trying to see the path my users take when clicking thru a web app I have. I've got logs, awstats and webalizer on the server-side, and I'm looking to install some sort of analytical product. I don't see any breadcrumb/click path data in my log files. Am I missing it? Barring that, what analytical products (Yahoo, Google, etc) can do this?
Thanks.
You can try GAVisual a small tool for Google Analytics which can show you users paths with waves (page by page) visualisation. It uses GA data for your site which was collected before.
I believe Google Analytics supports this via a site overlay that shows which links users clicked on each page. I don't think it will do per-user tracking, but the site overlay gives you a good idea of how users in general navigate through your site.
Regardless, I would highly recommend Google Analytics - super easy to set up and really powerful.
Woopra can show click-through paths in real time and on reports. It uses colors to visualize bounces (red) and popup links (green).
The downsides: free only while in Beta, and it can take a while for your subscription request to get approved.
Google Analytics does summary reports for entrance and exit paths and bounce rates, but it cannot show such a compelling picture as Woopra at the individual user level.
(source: heeroz.com)