Preview your guide on different screens
Check how your guide looks on a phone, tablet and laptop, and fix the problems that only appear on small screens.
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Guides adapt to the screen they are opened on, but that does not mean every guide reads equally well on every screen.
Test on a phone first
Most guests read guides on a phone. If you only check one device, make it that one.
Open your guide's link on your own phone rather than resizing a browser window. A real phone shows you the things that matter: how much fits before scrolling, whether text is comfortable, whether the cover image crops badly.
What tends to go wrong on small screens
- Long paragraphs that looked fine on a laptop become walls of text
- Cover images that crop awkwardly, cutting off the part that made the photograph worth using
- Important information pushed below the fold, so guests never scroll to it
- Pale colours that are unreadable outdoors in daylight
Check it in the conditions guests use it
A guest reads your guide standing outside with luggage, one-handed, on a phone at low brightness, sometimes in sunlight.
If you can, glance at your guide outdoors once. It is a surprisingly effective test.
Tablets and laptops
Guides work on larger screens too, and some guests will use them — particularly when planning before a trip. Content sits in a wider column, so nothing needs adjusting separately.
After any big change
Re-check on a phone after changing your cover image, colours or the order of your content. Those are the three changes most likely to look different on a small screen than they did while you were making them.
