iPAD views of the UUCA website

I bought an iPAD to use in my business to demonstrate websites. 

It is a good Internet access device.  I love the way the smart cover lets it be "instant on" when I open the cover. 

I am inviting this discussion to capture iPAD information and tools for viewing and publishing to our website.  I hope someone else will do a "smartphone" discussion.  I do not use a smartphone but did see the
"mobile" version of our website the other day on my Goddaughter's phone
-- I liked it -- and it was very different, very abbreviated but does
include the Discussions.

I was first attracted last year when Dorothy showed me hers after service one Sunday.  I liked how she interacted with it, swiftly using the icons to navigate.She made it look effortless, and now I know that it is for me too -- not just for Dorothy.

I think that is when I realized that our own photo icons here can be clicked on to navigate to a person, and taught my stepmother to use Facebook when she was lost in it by saying "FACE",
click on the face and you will go to his/her page in this "BOOK".  She
got it.  And it is how I now find YOU when I am looking for the author
of an item.  Thank you to the people who have set their personal pages
to share something of themselves as members socially of this Church
community.

The size is lovely -- way more screen than the smartphones -- and just right for my eyes to enjoy.  It is portable and it does not get in the way of eye-contact with the person I am showing it to when I just lay it on the table -- we can look at it together.  The screen quality does not change with the orientation to light in the room.  The light comes from within the iPAD -- makes it great for reading eBooks in bed at night. This surprised me.

I am amazed at the visual high definition quality of our website on the iPAD.  The videos play better than even on my MAC PC (large screen).  The site view is not the abbreviated version that shows on the smartphone.

The publishing tools do not act like the full-featured PC version.  The text editor is really just basic text, and fine for comments, but no real formatting. Making corrections to the text was clunky. The on screen keyboard is ok for short stuff, like adding the website address the first time and signing in to the website.  I bookmarked the site easily and now when I use the browser, I can just push on the little bar and here I am.

fyi -- I also don't sign out of our website, and don't have to sign in. Same on my PC.  I am clueless how I can be signed on from two different devices at the same time.  Anyway that means that if this is the last site I have been to, when I open the case this site is instantly there onscreen and I am in as a member.

The email also captures my email messages -- just the display is shorter and fewer emails show. There are ways to classify them and display them by groups -- couls have all UUCA emails together I suppose -- and I have not done that. I figure that is what my PC is for.  What I do use the UUCA website emails for is that wonderful little automatic link right to the discussion someone just added.  I really like those automatic links. I don't know how they work if you are not already signed in and always signed on -- not an issue for me.

I do not know yet if the built in camera and video can be published directly to this site over wifi --- like having a little handy cam.  I may take it to a congenial meeting at church  - like the Wednesday Quilters -- and see what happens. Has anyone tried it?

If you use an iPAD to read and interact on site, I would appreciate learning more about this new tool and how it works for you or your friends to create greater and easier accessibility for our website.  What doors has this opened?