Every year more and more Smartphones are getting added to this blooming Smartphone market,
it has been expected that by the year 2014,
more users will access the internet from their phone than from the computers. This directly means that all the content rich, fancy flash sites will certainly become archaic. Now, this shows that as a business is you are do not have a mobile site, you do not have a virtual presence, so you could be missing out on over half of all web browsers.
Creating a Mobile Site of your website is not necessary have to be expensive, in fact, is it actually the smaller and miniature version of you existing website with more simple designs. The key factors are identifying the significant actions; you want to take while creating your mobile site.
There are various basic guidelines one needs to keep in mind when designing and developing a mobile Site:
The content needs to be concise and fonts are most likely to be smaller, which means that it’s unlikely you are not reading thesis on your mobile phone with effective Mobile Site, some content will have to be removed.
Screen are required to be created smaller for Mobile Site and fonts are needed to be smaller, users would not prefer to fill long forms using their phones, with coffee on one hand while driving down the highway. Of one needs to put in a form, one has to keep it simple with Name and email Id only on the Mobile site.
No wonder how fast one’s service provider claims to provide internet speed, but it’s not going to quickly download a 5MB PDF of your company’s terms and conditions. Hence phone would never be as fast desktops. Hence, the Mobile sites have limited the size of files and images, so that it could be quickly downloaded to the handsets and users do not get irate.
With rising and quickly evolving operating systems for iPhones, Androids and Blackberry, one has to keep Mobile Site neutral; the platform should be kept agnostic. Let’s take a quick example; flash does not work on iPhone, which shows that all the moving pretty images can’t be shown or put on your mobile Site
All the number should use this simple function that initiates a call whenever a user clicks on your phone number on the Mobile Sites, the function simply means- Click to talk phone numbers.
Another factor that is required to be worked on your Mobile Site is that your location should be searchable, which means, the option Find a location should work. Most Smartphone are equipped with GPS technology.
The Mobile Site needs to be kept simple with minimum and concise content. One needs to stick to certain factors, like reduce the file size, limit the amount of typing requirements and take the benefits of the Smartphone capabilities by clicking to talk numbers and location finders.
