Before we begin, I feel it necessary to emphasize the serious need for millions of mobile makeovers. There are waay tooo many sites that are completely inaccessible on the Mobile Web simply because their owners are either too lazy or ignorant to do anything about it. Think I’m joking? For those of you who haven’t surfed via mobile recently, allow me to share a few surprisingly borked websites:
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