Mobile Website Designing: A Kind Of Unique Designing Process
Mobile website design is different from the current web page designing done for the desktop or laptop devices
. These are made with the top down approach as users, for which this website is targeted; too surf the internet on their mobile devices in the same order. Statistically, there"re around six billion mobile users all over the world. Out of these only 20% users are actually surfing the WAP connection on their handsets to search online, chatting, mailing etc. So, around one billion users are surfing the internet on their mobile device. This is a big number to be missed by the mobile marketers to promote their service or products. One of the challenges, mobile web design is to design the websites of different screen sizes and pixels. It is advisable to develop a fluid design for these websites. Also use a percentage instead of pixels on the screen helps.
The mobile users are usually surfing the sites on their mobile with other activities such as walking, talking or taking their food while sitting in a restaurant, so the attention span of time will be lesser as compared to surfing on the desktop. Nevertheless, the website design needs to take care of faster speed and relevant detail in minimum possible time made available to the user. Kindly avoid graphic pictures or web pages that take too much time to load and be available to the users. Keep it as simple as possible. Cut everything to short and keep the links and categories well labeled because the user is most likely wait for the choice to appear before him if he knows what he is waiting for. Limited option and categories and don"t get user lost in the search. A website map may help the user to decide from where to surf the website to get the needed outcomes.
Navigation is an essential circumstance and it needs to be faster on the mobile web design. For that it is advised to use Lists with maximum 10 links per page along with access keys. Escape key should be there in the design at the end of every page so that one can always go to the previous section or home page whenever he or she wishes and does not need to scroll back to the top of the web page.
Bandwidth is limited so avoid using JavaScript or objects to design your site. Page size ought to be limited between 10kb and 25kb so that it doesn"t take too much time to load on the mobile. Fonts ought not to be specified in pixels.
Specific mobile devices can be addressed and detected i.e. One can know that particular mobile handsets are surfing the websites. This can be achieved by adapting a site that can render on the phone instead of only building a website. There are various databases online which share the user information with the sites they visited during their surfing.