How to make a website mobile-friendly
Make your website easier to read and use on a phone. Work through page order, navigation, forms, images and a practical mobile test in Mythos.
Start with what someone needs to do
A website can fit inside a phone screen and still be difficult to use. A menu may hide the contact link. A large photograph may push the service description out of view. The keyboard may cover the button someone needs to submit a form.
Choose one useful journey before changing the design. For a repair business, that might be finding the relevant service, checking the area covered and sending an enquiry. Open the site on your phone and attempt that journey from beginning to end. Note the exact page and action wherever you get stuck. That gives you a better starting point than asking for a general mobile redesign.
1. Give the small screen a clear reading order
Start with the busiest page. Decide what a visitor needs first, what supports that information and what can come later. On a service page, a useful order might be the service name, a brief explanation, the enquiry action, examples of the work and common questions.
A desktop layout can put several of those items side by side. On a phone, stacking them creates a sequence, so check that the sequence makes sense. Keep qualifications and price conditions close to the claims they explain.
Responsive layouts use flexible sizing and adjust when the available space changes. MDN's responsive design guide explains the underlying approach. In Mythos, describe the specific adjustment: ask for the service cards to form one column when their text becomes cramped, while retaining the wider layout where it works.
3. Let text grow and wrap
Use the real heading, address and product names when reviewing a layout. Sample text rarely exposes what happens to a long email address or a service title that wraps onto three lines. Check that cards expand with their content and that buttons still look intentional when their labels wrap.
Enlarge the text or zoom the page. Ordinary paragraphs should remain readable without repeated sideways scrolling. W3C's reflow guidance describes this requirement and the exceptions for content that needs two dimensions, such as a detailed table.
For a wide comparison table, decide whether people need every column at once. A short set of cards may be clearer. If the table must remain, make its own scrolling area apparent rather than allowing the whole page to drift sideways.
4. Fill in the form with the keyboard open
Tap each field and enter realistic information. Can you see what you are typing? Can you reach the next field and the submit button? Try an empty submission, an invalid email address and a longer message.
Keep visible labels above or beside fields. Placeholder text disappears while someone types, so it is a poor substitute for the field's name. W3C's form-label guidance explains how labels identify controls.
Ask Mythos to fix the observed problem with its location and expected result: the enquiry button should remain reachable when the keyboard is open. After the change, repeat the submission. A form's appearance and its ability to deliver an enquiry are separate things to check.
5. Review photographs and loading together
A wide photograph may need a different crop on a narrow screen. Check the subject, any detail the article discusses and the relationship between the image and its caption. Text baked into a large image often becomes unreadable on a phone; put essential instructions in the page itself.
Watch the page while images load. A visitor should not have to chase a moving button as a photograph appears above it. Ask Mythos to preserve space for the image and use an appropriately sized version.
Test on an ordinary mobile connection as well as your usual Wi-Fi. If a decorative animation or gallery makes the first useful content slow to appear, simplify that part before adding more effects.
6. Repeat the journey after publishing
Review the changed pages at a narrow phone width, a wider phone width and a desktop width. Device emulation helps expose layout problems; a real phone adds touch, its browser and the on-screen keyboard. Check both.
Then open the published URL directly and repeat the original journey. Follow a deeper page link, reload it, open the menu and submit the form where a working destination is configured. Include any consent or error messages that were absent from the initial view.
Keep the fixes small enough to verify. Our guide to improving an app without breaking existing behavior explains that workflow. When the mobile journey works, continue with the broader checks before publishing.
