How to Build a Mobile Website

Due to considerably increase in use of mobile devices for accessing the web, web

developers and designers can’t afford to ignore it while making a business

website for their clients. Even some ecommerce owners are demanding a

separate mobile version of their main functional website so that they can stand

ahead of competitors.

With a limited viewing space, mobile platform has a layer of complexity that can

be difficult for developers to solve. Mobile development should be cross platform.

It is practically impossible to test it for large number of mobile devices, as it may

leave developers insane for days when they had to support only few browsers.

In order to support different platform,you need to devise some strategies as

every device may use any number of web browsers. Also due to the significantly

decrease in screen sizes,it’s hard to reach atoptimal solution. In this article, we

have put together some best practice guidelines to tackle these issues for creating

effective mobile web development.

How To Implement Mobile Stylesheets

What To Change With Mobile Stylesheets

Beyond Stylesheets

Special Concerns For iPhone / iPad

1. How to Implement Mobile Stylesheets

The first step is to include a special stylesheet to adjust the CSS for mobile

devices:

- SERVER-S IDE METHODS & THE U A STR ING

To include mobile stylesheets one approach is detecting the user agent string with

a server-side language such as PHP.

- CL IENT-S IDE METHODS & MEDIA QUER IES

An easiest approach involves detecting the mobile device on the client side.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="site.css" media="screen" /><link rel="stylesheet"

href="mobile.css" media="handheld" />

@import url("screen.css");

@import url("antiscreen.css") handheld;

@import url("antiscreen.css") only screen and (max-device-width:480px);

2. What to Change with Mobile Stylesheets

Increase and alter screen real estate

Reduce Bandwidth

Improve readability by increasing the font size

3.Beyond Stylesheets

Add a number of special mobile features:

Clickable Phone Numbers

Special Input Types

Viewport Dimensions and Orientation

4. Special Concerns For iPhone / iPad

No Flash

Special IPhone /iPad Enhancements

Conclusion

As the mobile users surpassed the desktop ones, hand held device support will

also become popular. Hopefully this article will help you develop a separate

mobile website design although the techniques described in this article are only

temporary, so it is your duty update yourself with this ever-changing technology

to stay on the top of this competitive field.