Would you like an additional website that works on a Mobile or Smartphone?

Using a regular website on a PDA, Smartphone or mobile phone is like trying to fit a Ferrari into a matchbox

According to the Australian Commucations and Media Authority there is more than one mobile phone for every person in Australia. Many of these phones have access to the web. More and more people are accessesing the internet through their mobile phone, PDA or Smartphone.

Mobile phone web sites are optimized for the lower bandwidth and smaller screen of a PDA, mobile phone or smartphone.Creating a web site for a mobile phone is more complicated than most people realise. Effective mobile websites take the small screen, limited bandwidth and range of mobile phone web browsers into consideration.

There are some basic fundamentals which need to be considered when designing of an effective mobile phone web site, they include:

• planning the content of the site, and limiting the text to the most important messages
• developing the structure of the web site so it as simply navigated as possible
• reducing the size and number of images
• avoiding animation and JAVA which don't work on mobile phones and PDAs
• ensuring the site is compliant with WC3 Standards (designing the site in HTML and CSS).
• listing phone numbers on the site so they can be clicked on by the PDA/mobile phone user
• providing clear and simple links to aid navigation through the site.

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