Web Design For Mobile Devices
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What do you need to do, if anything, to design your web site for mobile devices such as smart phones?
Full Web Sites On Mobile Devices
With the increase in mobile Internet speeds, mobile devices now include much better web browsers, which can display web sites more or less in the same way as you see them on your computer. The faster speeds allow these mobile web browsers to display all the graphics on the web page, in addition to the text, so that the web page looks like it does on your computer.
So, with most modern mobile devices, you do not need to change your web site at all, since the devices are capable enough to display your web site just as good as on your computer.
Mobile Web Sites Optimized For Mobile Devices
Even with mobile devices being able to display web sites in their full form, some companies are still building separate web sites designed specifically for mobile devices. Usually such sites have a minimized layout to fit the small screen of the mobile device. They typically also have less graphical content, and more text based content. The idea is that the smaller layout and less graphical content will be easier to use on a mobile device, due to the small screen size of such devices.
Conclusion
Whether or not to design a separate web site for mobile devices is up to you. Current mobile devices are more than capable of showing a web site in its full form - so a separate web site is not strictly necessary. But you still may want to build a site with a smaller layout, optimized for the small screen sizes of mobile devices, to make it easier for customers to view your content on mobile devices.
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