How To Make A Website Mobile-Friendly
It is estimated that by 2013, the number of mobile Internet users around the world will reach to a staggering 1.7 billion people. As mobile browsing has turned into a common practice among end-users, it is in your best interest to take advantage of this mobile Internet trend and use it to generate traffic to your own website. There are many ways that you could use in order to make your landing page mobile-friendly without necessarily changing its overall set up. Read on to find out some of the methods that you could use to achieve such said goal.
Have you ever bothered checking how your website looks like on a screen that takes up just a few inches? If you haven't tried it yet, this is the right moment that you check the appearance of your webpage on a mobile device. There are some webpages that appear better than the others, and if your website looks cramped, especially when readers are trying to access your contents, it is likely that they would immediately disregard your page. To prevent this from occurring, you need to make a website that has a fluid width layout. This means that you have to remove the extra dead spaces usually seen around you landing page so that it could stretch or squeeze according to the size of the browser being utilized by the end-user.
Try to make a website that has contents that are always in the center. Always bear in mind that most hand-held mobile devices have limited screen capture, meaning their screens can only fit a few things, and those things should be the contents of your site and not the advertisements in your landing page. If possible, try to limit your use of imagery as these things will not only make browsing slower, it could also be troublesome for the end-user to scroll up and down on your pages. Similarly, make your website highly navigable, and make unique approaches on how your readers could access the contents on your page.
Make a website content that is comprehensible and would uphold the interest of your readers. When your landing page is being viewed on a much smaller screen, it pays to have a compelling headline that would tickle the fancy of a reader and would send a message that he or she would enjoy reading such content. Clear content that gets right to the point is something that will assure your reader that your material is worth reading on their devices, even while they are in a busy area like a mall. You also need to be sure that your pages are short and compact in order to make your website accessible regardless of the platform being used.
It is a fact that typing in hand-held devices can be difficult especially because the keypad and qwerty keyboard are not always effective and can be tiresome to use when it comes to typing long blocks of texts. With that said, you need to make sure that you maintain a simple domain name that your readers could easily remember and type on their mobile devices. Additionally, it would be better if you reduce or, if possible, totally eliminate the typing work on your site while users navigate it. Rather, maximize the use of links, buttons and tabs in order to easily direct your readers to other pages on your website.
Basically, your web presence doesn't have to stop in the computer platform alone; rather you could also use mobile Internet to generate traffic to your website. You could instantly make your website accessible to all kinds of Internet platform, especially on mobile devices, by following the aforesaid tips. In doing so, you'll definitely gain more web recognition against your competition considering that you are catering your specialties to end-users across all Internet platforms.
Nowadays, mobile Internet has become common among web surfers. Of course, as a site owner, you have to make a website that is accessible to all platforms so that you could generate more traffic that would further give you recognition on the Internet. You have to make sure that your website is mobile-friendly by creating a fluid width layout that is highly navigable and contains contents that are truly interesting to read.
Published November 29th, 2010
Filed in Web Design