Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website

[techg]

Mobile website design is very different to designing a desktop website. Mobile web design faces many challenges, not least the fact that there is no uniform browser for mobile devices. Mobile website design also has to take account of different screen sizes. Here are our top 10 tips for a great mobile web design.

1) Consider the mobile device - Mobile devices have limitations when compared to PC's, such as small screens and no mouse, but they also have capabilities such as phone, camera and SMS which need to be recognized when designing your mobile site.

2) Think about the mobile user - Mobile users are impatient as a breed, they browse differently to desktop users, as a general rule, mobile users want fast access to bite size content.

3) Keeping it simple - Try and avoid large volumes of text, as a guide 75 words per page is a good maximum. Keep the navigation of your site as simple as possible, the fewer clicks it takes a user to find the information they want the better. Don't expect people to fill out time-consuming forms.

4) Speed is king - Large images, flash animation and video will slow your site down - avoid them if you can, functionality is more important than style for mobile websites.

5) Make it useful - Think about what is most important to your audience, especially what they need when they're on the move.

6) Make it compatible - Mobile devices are incredibly diverse. If your site is not coded correctly it may look good on one phone, awful on another and may not even work on another! Make sure your site works on all phones.

7) Choosing your domain name - Using a .mobi domain will improve your search engine rankings and make your site easier to find.

8) Market your site - Make sure potential customers can find your site. There's no point having a site if no-one knows it's there, invest time on SEO, paid search listings, operator portal and directory submissions.

9) Analysis - Analysis tools such as Google Analytics are invaluable, test your mobile website and keep working to improve it.

10) Don't overspend! - Start simply and your ROI will come more quickly.

The One Key Benefit From a Mobile Website:-

If your business has a website already, why bother upgrading it for mobile? What's the benefit of making sure your website can be read and used on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android phones?

It's simple: To reach the outrageously growing crowd of consumers going online with mobile devices.

Your company's website is a business asset that serves a business purpose - usually lead generation, sales and order taking, or customer service. If 25% of your website's visitors are coming via mobile that means your website is only 75% effective.

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[Alan]

1) Consider the mobile device - Mobile devices have limitations when compared to PC's, such as small screens and no mouse, but they also have capabilities such as phone, camera and SMS which need to be recognized when designing your mobile site.

When is a phone not a phone: When its a mobile phone. There's so much technology on these devices now, should it really be called a phone anymore?

2) Think about the mobile user - Mobile users are impatient as a breed, they browse differently to desktop users, as a general rule, mobile users want fast access to bite size content.

That makes them just the same as PC users (how inconsiderate).

4) Speed is king - Large images, flash animation and video will slow your site down - avoid them if you can, functionality is more important than style for mobile websites.

You're right iPhone, iPod, & iPAd dont have Flash support right now.

5) Make it useful - Think about what is most important to your audience, especially what they need when they're on the move.

Hey we should be doing that anyway whether its for mobile or not.

6) Make it compatible - Mobile devices are incredibly diverse. If your site is not coded correctly it may look good on one phone, awful on another and may not even work on another! Make sure your site works on all phones.

Fundamental point. As we all already do (?) for other browsers.

7) Choosing your domain name - Using a .mobi domain will improve your search engine rankings and make your site easier to find.

?? That's what this TLD was intended for, but how effective is it? There aren't enough of them out there to really tell.

Simply put apply what we are doing over the web today, and apply it for the mobile browser markrt too.

[seoexpert22]

Nice useful tips sharing.

[richard_hall22]

Wow....awesome.....Thanks for shearing this useful information.Keep it up.

[weblover50]

How are the mobile sites different from other sites? If yours are not popular enough, then it makes no difference.

[abdullah84]

This tips are quite useful. And seeing these tips I think creating a mobile site is lot tougher than creating for PC.

[anilkamble]

thanks for sharing this nice info with us.
hoping more from u.

[wendy12]

Awesome tips very useful.

[rubeljoy]

Mobile site is something much different than pc site. Very helpful post. Thanks for your effort.

[neo127]

Mobile sites mostly needs better display, less load time with better display of specifications. These are just basic needs and if want to improve purchsing than make the cart and payment system easier and its done.