The mobile website design is the most promising platform for several consumer driven companies. The number of mobile phone users in the world is more than 2.4 billion and out of that nearly 30% of users surf the internet on a regular basis. This is the primary reason for the increasing popularity of mobile web development in fact, many people predicts that the internet browsing will be leap over the usage of the internet browsing on the desktop. A large number of WAP mobile users browse the internet on mobiles but are often faced with the difficulty of improper display and loading of the website.

A mobile website involves special designing and development procedures. Here are some of the points that you need to bear in mind while making mobile web site.

The most primary requirement that one needs to understand is that the web browsing on the computer and the mobile phone have huge difference. Therefore, you need to design a special website so that your customers can have a better accessibility of your website on the mobile phone. For this websites must be set on W3C.

One of the things to avoid for making good mobile website design is to not use tables in the layout as this will not look good on the mobiles. CSS gives maximum compatibility there the mobile web site made on CSS layout is better.

A mobile website can be made better with the usage of XML or XHTML coding and the character encoding set being UTF-8.

Always take into consideration that the mobile phones are available in different sizes with various sizes of screens as well. Make sure that your design is such that it works on most of the screen sizes.

The maximum size of mobile website page is 20 kilobytes and therefore it is better to fit all the content including pictures in that size. This also makes it a challenge for you to include all the important information about your business and products is presented on top the page itself.

Most of all, take care that you design your website such that it is worth the money that the mobile users are spending for surfing your website.

Webaroo has launched a mobile Web site for SMS GupShup, its popular free group SMS service.

Webaroo claims that the new mobile Web site’s user interface (UI) is intuitive, easy to use, and form-fitted for the phone screen, making accessing and reading content a pleasurable experience.
The mobile Web site allows users to perform a host of actions on their mobile phones. Once signed in, users have access to their accounts, and can create, add, or modify their profile, group, and subscribers. They can also search, browse, discover, and subscribe to content, and post text and picture messages. The mobile Web site also allows users to share favorite groups with buddies.

Meanwhile, the SMS GupShup mobile Web site is accessible on any phone that is data-enabled. To access the SMS GupShup mobile Web site on their phones, users need to login to the url: http://m.smsgupshup.com.

Mobile technology is revolutionizing the way we access information. Mobile technology displays information relevant to the individuals physical location. This creates a whole new world of interaction possibilities. It is estimated that by 2010 half of the world will have access to the internet via a mobile device. This will make the mobile web a more essential part of our daily lives.

If you have not already done so, register the .mobi version of your particular domain name. .mobi domains are intended for websites that will be viewed on cell phones and other mobile devices. Most .mobi sites are short abstracts of your current website. When someone visits your website via a mobile device, they are redirected to the .mobi version. Access to your information is now quick and easy.

How would your website look on a hand held device? Is it easy to navigate? Is the most important information readily available to your visitors? Is your website “mobile Web” ready?

Ten years ago most small business owners didn’t have a website and probably didn’t see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. A website is a necessity for doing business in the 21st century. Also a necessity in the 21st century is a website that can be easily viewed on a hand held device.

According to the latest statistics, only 11% of Americans are getting their news and information using the browser in their mobile phone. That doesn’t seem too impressive until you look at the enormous popularity of Apple’s new iPhone and realize that “the times, they are a changing.” In the next few years, the popularity of surfing the net on your mobile Web is going to skyrocket.

Mobile devices are the future of the Internet. According to a November 27, 2007 article in the New York Times, “More than 30 companies have signed up for the Open Handset Alliance from Google, which aims to bring the wide-open development environment of the Internet to mobile devices.” If Google is getting involved in this effort to broaden the use of the Internet on hand held devices, you can be sure that this is not just a passing trend.

The incredible popularity of the iPhone is leading the way to a new website platform for businesses. As the Web technologies for mobile devices continue to improve, more and more people are going to be using their iPhone or Blackberry to connect to the Internet. However, even though the improved Internet navigation capabilities of the iPhone make it easier for users to connect to the Internet, there is still one big problem with mobile devices. Small screens make for difficult viewing.

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.

Now is the right time to market websites via the mobile Internet. The market is relatively new and there are only a handful of competitors. Making a quick move now could help businesses establish dominance in the market leaving the competition trailing behind.
The days of SMS marketing are numbered. Mobile marketing is no longer limited to just sending out blanket SMS messages to scores of users with the hope that some might be interested. The mobile Internet brings the same flexibility to hand held devices as the World Wide Web brought to PCs.

soon, I am going to write some tutorials about how to create mobile websites? creating websites for mobiles is very easy task if you are already creating websites for normal browsers. You just need to change your markup and layout for porting your current website to mobiles….

Please visit this page in in very near future.