Blog 84 Website, Travel goes Mobile in a Website Responsiveness Way, WIX Studio Vs WIX Editor for Nerds

KeefH Web Designs
Nov 13, 2021
3 min read

Updated: May 22

By keef and annie hellinger, Apr 8 2015 05:39AM Travel goes Mobile

Travel goes Mobile - and we mean website mobile, not transportation mobile, there is a big difference #smile The website has officially gone mobile — slimmer, faster and far better behaved on a phone than most sat‑navs. This cheerful blog celebrates pages that resize neatly, menus that don’t wander off screen and photos that load without a tantrum. A light‑hearted look at how the whole Motorhome Travels site now works beautifully on the move, proving that good design is the best travel companion of all. Remember the largest % of views are on a phone.

THE HERE & NOW

Take a look at the 2 latest sites on your phone, you will see how technology has improved over the years. This is currently 2026, in whatever year you are viewing this my guess is it will be even more improved.

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WIX editor works by using an all purpose API to fashion the mobile (phone) version for small screens from the desktop version, there is some configuration allowed with it, however it is limited. WIX Studio is cleverer and allow you to define your own using the desktop as a starting point

Note WIX editor behaves badly for tablets and safari.

Wix Studio vs Wix Editor

Responsive design is the backbone of a modern website, ensuring every page looks clean, readable and functional on mobiles, tablets and desktops. Both Wix Editor and Wix Studio deliver responsive behaviour, but they do it in very different ways — and Studio is miles ahead in flexibility, control and reliability.

In Wix Editor, responsiveness is mostly automated. The system rearranges elements for smaller screens, and you make manual tweaks on mobile view when things don’t quite line up. It works, but it can feel like you’re constantly fixing what the automatic engine has guessed. Elements sometimes shift unexpectedly, spacing can be inconsistent and complex layouts often need repeated adjustments. For simple sites, this is fine. For anything more ambitious, it becomes limiting.

Wix Studio, by contrast, is built from the ground up for true responsive design. Instead of relying on automatic rearranging, Studio uses flexbox, CSS grid, fluid sizing, design tokens and breakpoint‑based control — the same principles used by professional web designers. This means layouts adapt naturally to any screen size without breaking. You decide how elements behave: stretch, wrap, stack, scale or reposition. Nothing is left to guesswork.

Studio also gives you multiple breakpoints, not just desktop and mobile. You can fine‑tune tablet layouts, large screens and ultra‑wide monitors, ensuring the site looks intentional everywhere. Add to that the ability to set minimum and maximum widths, percentage‑based sizing, advanced pinning, container‑based design and component reuse, and you get a system that’s both powerful and predictable.

The result is a site that loads faster, looks sharper and behaves consistently across devices — with far less manual fixing. For motorhome travellers browsing on phones, tablets and laptops, that reliability matters.

In short: Wix Editor makes sites responsive. Wix Studio makes them responsive properly.

HISTORY OF MOBILE RESPONSIVENESS

Update Nov 2021, with the demise of Moonfruit and the site being moved to WIX which has a whole lot better development functionality for mobile sites alongside the desktop this post is in essence redundant.

UPDATE Nov 2020, due to the fact that Flash is removed Dec 2020 all of these mobile views are replaced by responsive code, please see BLOG 143 for further info. I have reworked all our motorhome travel websites to ensure they are in technical parlance "responsive embedded" and suitable for use on all mobile phones. They always worked on laptops, macs , desktop pcs and tablets but were a little quirky on phones. Why not try them out on your phone and let us know of anything we could do better, many thanks and happy motorhoming!