Mobile Browsing is Becoming a Reality, Be Prepared!

If it is true that mobile browsing is becoming a reality, it is better to be prepared and create user friendly websites and content that is adapted for users coming with mobile phones.

  • Mobile sites should load fast, 3G is still not so fast when compared with your ADSL, so no heavy images to download
  • Adapt to small screens, the content should be easy to read in small screens
  • No Flash or Javascript, they are not supported widely

It is possible to detect mobile browsers with simple scripts and offer a tailored page as a response. I have slightly redesigned my webpages and used a different CSS when visitors come from a mobile device (check my home page with your mobile phone ). For this blog I use WordPress Mobile Edition plugin and it works fine.

So, no excuses, the tools are available it is up to you to offer the best user experience to the visitors coming to your website.

Read Developing mobile sites.

And do not forget to make your mobile website searchable from Google, read Adding a mobile site to Google , Creating Mobile Sitemaps and Google redirect to the mobile page.

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