We’ve been really impressed with the mobile sites that have launched on VIP recently, many of which are responsive websites. Here’s a quick roundup of recent mobile launches on WordPress.com VIP.
Quartz
Quartz’s fully responsive theme is blindingly fast, and scales whether you’re looking at it on a phone, tablet or laptop. The site looks and feels like an application. You can read more about Quartz’s innovative design here and here.
LocalTV
LocalTV’s mobile app (available in both the iTunes and Android stores), is powered by a custom mobile theme that is wrapped into an app. It also receives “rich” push notifications, meaning they can push HTML updates.
Time.com’s Person of the Year
TIME.com’s Person of the Year site was launched in just two weeks using a responsive theme.
Our Q&A with TIME.com Managing Editor Cathy Sharick
Time.com’s responsive redesign announcement
GigaOM
GigaOM’s clean site is also responsive, and is easy to navigate on a mobile phone with a slide out menu on the left for sections and on the right for search and social tools.
Metro
Metro’s site is fully responsive, with the added functionality of being able to swipe from one article to the next when on a touchscreen device.
The Vivant
TheVivant.com’s mobile site takes advantage of beautiful slideshows that pop up inside of your mobile browser and allow you to swipe through pages that have both large photographs and in-depth captions. It is a child theme of WPtouch.
NeilLeifer.com
The translating the beautiful photography site of Neil Leifer onto a mobile device can be tricky. On this beautiful site, each gallery is represented by a thumbnail: tap once to see the name of the gallery, tap twice to load the gallery.
Williams
Williams recently updated their site with a responsive design, which re-orients their homepage carousel from horizontal in the desktop version to vertical in a mobile version, and adds mobile-friendly navigation.
Radar Online
The mobile version of Radar Online provides the full Radar experience, complete with slideshows, videos, commenting and social media tools.
Naked Security
Using a child theme of WPtouch, Sophos’ Naked Security blog loads lighting fast, and offers mobile-friendly drop down menus.
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