have been receiving error message from Google that my variants "viewport is not set to device-width"
Hi
Not a lot of information to go on.
By Google do you mean Google Chrome on a mobile device - if not what do you mean?
If you have changed the Viewport meta tag try the default tag that Web Designer generates by default ie:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"/>
If you are setting the 'width' to a fixed value, this may cause issues.
HTH
John EB
Thank you for responding! By Google I meant Google Web Tools, which runs analytics on crawl and mobility issues. I had set my variants to 480 px for the mobile variant, using Web Designer defaults. I have not changed the Viewport meta tag, so I don't understand why I'm getting these errors. Can you please tell me how I get to the meta tags, anyway?
Hi
. . . . I had set my variants to 480 px for the mobile variant, using Web Designer defaults. I have not changed the Viewport meta tag . . .
I suspect this may be what is causing the issue - the viewport tag default is what I posted above. You should find that the published pages have the default changed to:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=480px, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"/>
Try reverting the device width setting back to its default
. . . . Can you please tell me how I get to the meta tags, anyway . . . .
In Web Designer these presets are on the Website Tab, custom ones may also be on the Page Tab
You can also view the generated HTML tags by publishing the site to a folder and opening the index page in a web browser then use the browers View HTML option.
Alternatively you can also Notepad to open the index.html page - I prefer using Notepad ++ as this program formats and colour codes the HTML correctly to make easier reading.
HTH
John EB