Guidelines in building a mobile website

Mobile devices have become part of everyday lives for busy professionals. They have combined many tools into one object and eliminated clutter from people’s lives. Some people have eliminated desktop computers altogether and do most of their light browsing on their phones. While they may not always be classified as phones as their main usage, I think it’s safe to say they are here to stay.

Building a mobile website is generally easier than building fully fledged computer version. This is because it generally contains less content and less visual features due to limited screen real estate of mobile devices. Limited performance of mobile devices also poses a challenge especially when dealing with flash and design rich in media. Also, all mobile devices are different in their screen resolution, dots per inch of their screens, hardware capabilities, and the software they run. Also a mobile user may turn their screen sideways which will affect the aspect ratio of how your website is displayed. Your code needs to take all this into account and be flexible.

The first step in creating a web page, mobile or otherwise is to identify what your target audience wants. This largely depends on the type of your website. If you are providing a SaaS (software as a service) website, then it can be said with a fair amount of confidence that the majority of your users will be visiting your site to access their account and receive such a service over their mobile website.

This is just enough to reach the current status quo of mobile websites. Ideally you would want to make it stand out and be innovative, and provide a special something to your audience that makes your site stand out and be spoken of. Skygate Media is a high end website design company that takes all these issues into account when building client websites. They are dedicated to providing a high impact portal to your business and to strongly communicate your corporate message.