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Offline patilamit

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Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« on: May 28, 2010, 06:17:04 AM »
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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Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
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Offline pratik999

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 07:33:31 AM »
Designing websites for mobile is always been difficult. Thanks for sharing this useful tips with us.

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2011, 02:49:18 AM »
Your tips are very beneficial for designing mobile website.For having better speed avoiding images will be very helpful while designing mobile site.

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2011, 01:12:48 PM »
ah.. awesome tips. Its all amazing.. i like it. thanks for sharing dear.

Offline Tjshecha

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2011, 06:34:17 PM »
Thank you for your very good advice.
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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2011, 05:43:02 AM »
Sounds good,
Such a nice part of valuable information.
Thanks for sharing.

Offline Kuppa

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2011, 01:43:13 PM »
Very helpful tips, I'm glad I came across this post because all of these are very important

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2012, 04:56:16 AM »
Flat layout is the key requirement of designing a mobile website as they have only one way to access website which can be horizontal or vertical.  Speed is also concern for mobile websites, if there is no difference in viewing general website and mobile website, users would like to leave it without checking offers or any other information on the site. UX design is also required hence you have limited space to display information and content.
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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2012, 06:34:19 AM »
Thanks for sharing this useful information.I have found some nice tips for designing a mobile website:-
Websites using tables for layout will not render well on mobile handsets. The site must use CSS for layout
The site must be coded using either XHTML or XML
Character encoding should be UTF-8
Bear in mind different screen sizes of mobile users. The largest screen size available is probably 640 x 480, whereas the average is closer to 120 pixels

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Re: Top 10 Tips for Designing a Great Mobile Website
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2012, 08:15:02 AM »
Thanks for sharing such quality information about Mobile website Design. There are so many elements essential to create great mobile website designs. If you want to create Mobile website’s design, then it should be able to display website on various platforms like computer, tablet and mobile easily. It should have fast loading pages and compatible with all browsers. It is necessary to make powerful and easy search system as well as you have to need to make separate pages for brief information.
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