The Editors: BBC Information in your cell – Go Well being Professional

Earlier this yr we launched a brand new model of the BBC Information cell website, making it simpler and faster to make use of. This week we have begun the method of directing all cell customers mechanically to that website. Which means that anybody who visits BBC Information on their cell shall be taken to the model of the positioning greatest suited to the kind of cellphone they’re utilizing.

A lot of you already go to the cell website commonly however, up till now, individuals on the lookout for BBC Information on their cellphone will typically have discovered themselves on the desktop model of the positioning, which is designed for desktop PCs, macs and laptops – all with a lot greater screens. If you’re utilizing this desktop model in your cellphone it may be awkward to pinch, zoom and scan the tales on a small cell display.

This picture reveals how the cell website shows on a smartphone – in contrast with the desktop model:

To deal with this, we have been working over the previous six months to enhance and add to the cell website, taking up board your suggestions about the way you’d prefer to see it develop.

We have just lately added video clips for iPhone and Android customers, and made it simpler to navigate the positioning. (We hope to increase this video service to different kinds of cell sooner or later.) We have additionally added simpler methods of attending to native information and climate providers, one thing lots of you requested for. You’ll be able to learn extra about these adjustments right here.

So, we’re assured that the cell website now has the big selection of content material you might be on the lookout for and that it presents a greater expertise on a small display than the desktop website, which is why we’re taking the step of mechanically redirecting cell customers there.

After all, chances are you’ll be blissful to maintain visiting the desktop website in your cell and if you wish to proceed doing so simply scroll to the underside of the web page and faucet on the hyperlink for the desktop website. Your alternative shall be remembered for the following time you go to.

Equally, when you use a cell and discover that you just’re not redirected to the brand new website, you may scroll to the underside of the web page and choose the cell website.

That is the newest stage within the ongoing work by our Information product workforce on responsive design – a manner of presenting our content material to you in essentially the most appropriate manner by detecting the kind of gadget you might be utilizing and displaying the format greatest tailored for it. We’re doing related work to optimise the positioning for pill customers too.

The variety of individuals coming to BBC Information on cell continues to develop. In a median week, 13.3m customers worldwide use their cell or pill to go to the BBC Information website and apps – round one-third of complete customers to BBC Information On-line.

If you’re one among them, our intention is to give you the total vary and depth of BBC Information content material, no matter gadget you might be utilizing, while additionally making greatest use of the display dimension.

We hope you may like utilizing the brand new cell website, and if you would like to go away feedback and suggestions about it, or have questions, please publish them beneath. Or you may tweet your views utilizing the hashtags #bbcnews #responsive

Replace: Thanks on your feedback. Listed here are some solutions to the questions posted beneath:

John Walsh – Kindle: As a pill gadget, albeit with a smaller display than some makes, Kindles at the moment default to the desktop website. Customers of any gadget together with Kindles are actually free to make use of the cell model if they like by clicking the hyperlink on the backside of the display. Our intention is to additional enhance the expertise for progressively bigger display sizes over time.

Jesse Moore – HTC: We all know there are some units which are incorrectly categorized by our methods, typically because of the truth that some units have completely different identifiers depending on the cell community they’re on. In any case we will definitely be doing every thing we are able to to appropriate errors and make sure the redirection behaves because it ought to. Within the meantime, please use the “Cell Website” hyperlink on the foot of the web page must you want to use the cell website – the choice shall be remembered so long as cookies usually are not cleared. Right now the redirect solely applies to the BBC Homepage and the Information website.

Cogito Ergo Sum – Home windows cellphone: This modification applies to the browser expertise, which is already designed to work for Home windows Telephone though at current we’re unable to offer video for these units.

Costmeabob – We take accessibility for our providers significantly so, for instance, our browser and purposes are designed to work with Voiceover on iOS. 

Tim Stey – If you do nonetheless desire the desktop model you may choose the hyperlink on the backside of the web page and also you’ll be taken to it. Your alternative shall be remembered subsequent time you go to the positioning. We’re engaged on enhancing the cell website nonetheless additional to incorporate extra content material the place the know-how permits it – however with navigation extra suited to a smaller display dimension. 

 Josh Tumath – This weblog publish is perhaps of curiosity, about our general strategy to responsive design revealed in March by Chris Russell, head of product for BBC Information On-line.

Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC Information web site.