Why You Should Make Sure Your Websites Can Be Accessed On Cell Phones

June 12, 2012 - PRLog -- These days, more and more people are connecting to the internet using their mobile browsers. This is also the reason why you need to make sure your websites can be accessed on cell phones. Mobile phones are practically a lot easier to bring with you anywhere compared to a laptop. Since cell phones have become so advanced, most of the new models these days come with an internet browser. Because of this, most people prefer to use their cell phones as it is easier to carry wherever they go. If you are managing an online business and you want to reach more people, it is best to make sure your website can be viewed via mobile phone. How to do this? There are some changes you need to create on your website to make it viewable on a smaller screen.

Here are some of the important changes to make for a more improved mobile browsing:


1. Reduce Content

Not all you see on your PC screen is viewable from a mobile web page. Space is shorter and each pixel counts. If you want people to easily view your web page from a mobile, you need to reduce the amount of content to make it mobile-optimized.


Make sure to include only the important content and features. If there are any unnecessary contents such as links that are outside of the central content area, better have it removed. Usually, these contents are seen at the right hand columns of typical web pages. Your site needs to be very focused for visitors to easily read and move around. It is also faster to load especially on mobile phones, which sometimes have a slow browsing speed.

2. Use Single Column Layouts

Web pages that are too wide can be difficult to view using small cell phone screens. Even smart phones like iPhone - which have wide screens - require zooming of the pages just so it can fit on the screen. However, zooming is not ideal because it adds up extra work on the viewer. If you create a single column page, people would easily read the content without having to zoom in the page. If you have additional content, you can just expand it downwards so they can scroll down, which is easier than scrolling across and zooming in.



3. Present Different Navigation

When using a cell phone, the navigation is difficult to fit across the top of the screen. If you have this type of navigation, your content will be too far down. Instead, you can place the site search and navigation on top and then leave the content for the next pages. You can also place the navigation at the lower part of your page so users can access it while the content is still visible.

4. Reduce Text Entry



You may want to let your users access your web page easier on a mobile phone by reducing text entry. It is not easy to type using mobile phones especially with touch screens. You can reduce the text entry by allowing users to use PIN instead of passwords.

5. Have More than 1 Mobile Site



People use different phones with different types of screens. If you want your website to be easily accessed by all types of phone users, it may be best to have more than one mobile site. A good example of this is what Facebook did, wherein they created a version for touch screen phones and another for users in places where internet download speed is slow, apart from their main version. We have entered the era wherein mobile phones have become the most widely used gadget for browsing. It is also the time for you to make sure your website can be accessed on mobile phones. Have it “mobile browsing friendly” so you can accommodate more visitors not only those who view it from their PC.

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