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How to make mobile site?


I was thinking of putting up my own site for phones. I would like to host some pictures which can be downloaded and used as wallpapers and screensavers on the phone. Please guide me how to make mobile site?
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Mirza Fabiha Bin Yaseen | Nov 1 2011


You will need to know that the web site design and the construction of it is generally used for computer browsers and generally is not compatible with that of any mobile sets. For your site you will need to work well on your mobile handset and be able to work on it, and it must follow the accessibility design and even the guidelines for building mobile Websites which are set by the W3C and is most essential.in most of the mobile phones, the technology which is called the WAP ,that is used for browsing purpose.

Because of its limitations of WAP browsers in terms of screen size and its allowable download, you will need to strip down your current design.The easiest way is to just build your mobile as Website and also modify your existing Internet site to make it compatible for your mobile handsets. If you have to decide to do so, expect that there will be huge changes in terms of layout, design and even its construction.

Here are some principles about mobile Web design that you should take note of before proceeding to build one of your own:

1.Websites which just make the use of tables for the main layout and will not look right on mobile phones.

2.Your site must use CSS for the layout to ensure maximum compatibility.

3.It is easiest if your site is coded using either XML or X HTML, with your character encoding set at UTF-8.

4.It is difficult to enter text in your mobile Web sites. You may want to just offer your user the convenience of radio buttons and lists,and which they can choose from depending on what they need.

5.If you wish to put out images on your mobile Website, it should be in jpeg or GIF format.

6.A good mobile Web site design also provides back buttons and even the links. Many phones are not equipped with back buttons, so you need to provide one.

7.Keeping this thing in your mind that the maximum number of page size for a mobile page is only 20 kilobytes and not more than it. Make everything fit into that number.

8.Lastly you will have to bear in mind that users are actually being payed for the fees to access your mobile Website. Make it sure that they are getting their money worth.

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