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My client's site is being designed by engineers, they do not want it to be responsive, they want the whole site to shrink to whatever screen size is being used. I'm using Genesis Frameworks, and for starters have commented out the @media only section of code. Obviously that's not enough, the site is still responding as though it's responsive, the menu is going into multiple lines, header bar is rearranging itself, etc.
What else do I need to do to make the site shrink instead of moving around as the screen size shrinks?
http://192.185.150.46/~haddonmcc/wordpress/Having a non-responsive site will decrease that site's reputation with Google -- you may have already told your client that, but wanted to share that, before answering your question. 🙂
You likely just need to remove the "viewport" line from your functions.php file to finish making it un-responsive. http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/head/
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Lauren
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That didn't cause any change unfortunately.
And yes, I warned the client about Google and the ranking, they are totally unconcerned. What they want is to copy this site: http://www.chapagency.com/index.html in how it resizes. They are also young and have great eyesight.
I see it did make it better for the iphone, but when I see the site on the laptop I'm still getting double lines of the menu bar.
Contrary to typical advice, the customer is not always right, and even though it's sometimes painful, good designers don't give up easily when trying to see the error of their way. I recommend working even harder to get them to see all the problems with their current approach...and remind them that they hired you as the designer to ensure that they get a web site that actually works.
When I view that site on my iPhone, it's very hard to read. Let them know that this is the equivalent of putting up a roadblock to keep people out of their "store."
It's only a matter of time until they start getting complaints from potential customers or realize they're losing business because of an impossible-to-read web site.
*MoodyRiviera*
I know that, you know that, but these young engineers know they are right. I was told in very certain terms that they wanted the site to just shrink, they do NOT want the menu to fold into separate lines, they don't depend on Google for getting new clients, and that everyone has the technology now to just enlarge the screen where they want to read it.
I get tired of banging my head on the wall, so I just give them what they want. When they get the complaints from their customers, they can come back to get it done right, at a higher price. This is one of those PITA clients, designing by committee. Vent over! ha!
It might be easier to modify a non-responsive theme to give them the look they want, than to try to reinvent the wheel 🙂
Susan might be right. You've got some percentage widths in there, and some max-widths. Those are going to cause the site to respond to the browser. You'd need to go through and pull out all percentage widths, and change all
max-widths to justwidths.
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