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Issues in Mobi Web Design

What are the issues when designing for mobile devices?

A lot of mobile devices can cope with the WWW, and the Opera Mini browser helps people with mobile phones surf the web, however, there are thousands of types of phones, and scores of mobile browsers, so there are mobile phones that cannot cope with the big ol' WWW.

Mobile websites are designed to work on the majority of mobile devices, and they usually work on computers too.

Design

What if I already have a 'normal' website?

  1. You could ignore the needs of mobile surfers, after all, in 3 or 4 years, everyone will have amazing mobile phones with fold-out screens won't they? Well, no. Not everyone.
  2. You could strip out all the presentational style on your website so that mobile surfers just see the semantic structure, the HTML.
  3. You could create a seperate stylesheet for mobile devices, that re-styles your web content for the small-screen.
  4. You could repurpose the content and optimse the code and images for mobile surfing.

See the links below for more about what mobile websites need to address.

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