Create Mobile Website : Step by Step Guide to create your mobile website in XHTML

There are mandatory rules mentioned all across the web that you cannot just ignore if you intend to make mobile pages that will make its way to 1.6 Billion mobile phone screens around the world today. These rules once followed, are suppose to benefit page owners and page users alike or give everybody a good mobile existence and experience.

If you read about and aware yourself of these rules, you will most likely realize that it is actually simpler to just forget everything about mobile pages and start ignoring the buzz about WAP or dotMobi than to start complying with them. But if you believe with other big and small businesses, pay-per-clicks and big brands that the future traffic lies on mobile internet, you have no choice but to learn the rules that are enumerated below and quoted from a blogpage on dotMobi.

1. XHTML tags for your mobile profile

- You ought to have a tag for your mobile landing page to signify the XHTML nature of your site. XHTML is the preferred language for mobile web browsers (just in case you did not know) and this language gives mobile browsers the signal as to what kind of behavior your site wants the consumer to experience. Mobile sites not implementing this rule will be turned off with due notice.

2. Strictly No Frames

- Frames in some cases, screw up or break mobile browsers and produces a bad mobile experience for the users. They also make navigation around a mobile site more difficult for users. Mobile sites not implementing this rule will be turned off with due notice.

3. myname.mobi should be the landing page

- This rule exists for the practical reason that consumers on the go do not have much chance to remember lengthy addresses or even type lots of characters on a zero to nine keypad. A dotMobi page is supposed to guarantee that users need not worry about what comes before the name (www.something Or wap.something) and feed the requested mobile pages quickly and dependably. Mobile sites not implementing this rule will be turned off with due notice.

Now that you already know the rules, you already might be looking for ways to build mobile pages that are automatically compliant with these rules.

Making a mobile site has to be brain-dead simple nowadays for there already exist platforms that actually allow you to build your own mobile pages even when you don’t really know anything about XHTML.