In the past year, mobile first responsive web design has taken off. However, it’s not exactly a household phrase – not yet, anyway. For a forward thinking web shop, trying to sell a client, sitting on a 27-inch iMac, mobile first web design can be a challenge.  So why would one? If you are a forward thinking web shop projecting the user experience into the future and imagining your client’s visitors on a device other than a desktop PC, you should be. Think about the person in a moving car on their iPhone or Android, or perhaps a person on an iPad in a café looking for a product. Perhaps they’re on a device not yet invented. These are all distinct possibilities, and arguably more likely than someone on a fancy desktop PC. So why start there in the first place?

The answer is to design for mobile first and expand the design outward from there. The result is a website designed and optimized for every device a potential visitor may have, making the experience a friendly one, regardless of where and when they visit.

We’re excited about all the possibilities new devices bring to web design. Nick France Design will embrace mobile first responsive design and we’re guessing we’re not the only ones.

For more details on mobile first RWD, read Jason Grigsby’s article on the Cloud Four Blog.

I first understood the need to get twitter updated quickly when I noticed that others were beating me to the punch on stories that I was posting at work. Allowing others to tell your story negates your influence in the community. When it comes to your story, you want people coming to you, so you can influence and control the conversation. People and companies were taking an RSS feed from Bizwire and posting to twitter with “twitterfeed” faster than I could, manually.

With a twitterfeed account, you can add RSS feeds that update twitter and other destinations, automatically. So I set up an account and gave it a go. I noticed that the initial story I posted took a while to get to twitter, and never made it to facebook. Additionally, couldn’t find a way to get twitterfeed to differentiate my fan page from my profile on facebook. I don’t want design related material getting posted on my facebook profile, I want it to go to my fan page. In my attempt to check the documentation and look around for answers I found “dlvr.it” and procured an invite. Once my invite was accepted via email, I configured my account –  and this post will be the test round. Once I click publish on this post, it should update both twitter and facebook, immediately.

If you have a website with an RSS feed or a blog with a feed and you’d like to have your news, press releaces, blog posts, or any content connected to an RSS feed pushed to twitter and/or facebook, dlvr.it may be for you. I’m hoping it’ll work for me. If you’re one of my clients, followers, or fans that either follows me on twitter, is a fan on facebook, or subscribes to my blog via email, once I publish this, you’ll get this post and you’ll know how to update twitter and facebook automatically from your feed.

CoTweet

CoTweet provides very handy and easy to use tweet scheduler. You will be able to schedule tweets for any date and time without any limits.