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The mobile web is a sub-set of special web sites on the World Wide Web. The mobile web
is being developed to allow
access to information, using a mobile device. In some countries,
searching the web means searching the mobile web. The
importance of the mobile web can only be understood in a mobile context
. Mobile devices now number in the billions, with millions more being sold each year. Nearly every cell phone,
PDA and Smartphone
has a mobile web browser.
What this means to business owners is that potential
customers are using mobile devices to search the web
to find company web sites in growing numbers. Getting a mobile web site might be necessary,
if your customers are frequently mobile when they need to find information.
The reality of mobile web sites, means small
. Although mobile devices continue to improve, they are still much slower than a desktop computer. Data transfer from a mobile site
to a mobile device is via a wireless or cellphone connection, so it can be expensive to surf the web on a hand held device. Mobile web pages must download quickly, so they must be less than 10KB of text
and markup code, to be valid mobile. Very few sites validate as mobile user friendly, which makes many sites difficult to use.
Designing for a mobile web is very technical and few web designers understand this.
Good design on the mobile web also means accessible, since
using the mobile web should not be difficult.
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