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Web2Mobile – websites for mobiles

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The numbers of people surfing the web using a mobile phone or other mobile device has risen dramatically over recent months, and this is reflected by the recent push by mobile phone companies. According to the Mobile Data Association, some 15 million people in the UK access the internet using a mobile device every month. Webdivine can transform your PC based website presence into a stunning, compliant and mobile-ready site that will enable your customers to access your information whilst on the move.

Consider these facts:

  • Four mobile phones are purchased for every one personal computer.
  • There will be approximately 1.3 billion users who will have internet access on their mobile by 2008. Worldwide, that is 36% more mobile internet users than PC-based Internet users.
  • In many places, a mobile device is the only access people have to the internet.

Problems:

Very often, websites are difficult to access using a mobile device as:

  • Pages are badly formatted
  • Content is designed for PCs and therefore slow to download
  • The navigation is hard to use

In our example at the top of the page, the left hand image shows how the normal Webdivine site displays in a typical mobile browser. As can be seen, the text is very large and the tabs have stacked on top of each another. Furthermore, the page—not being optimised for a mobile—is lengthy and very difficult to navigate.

The solution:

But now there is a solution to this problem, namely the “.mobi” domain.

Dot mobi is the first—and only—top-level domain designed to let consumers know: “this website will work on my phone”. When a site ends with a “.mobi” address—like weather.mobi or webdivine.mobi—mobile users can be sure that they will be accessing a site that works on their phone. The idea behind the dot mobi domain is that it will reassure people that the website will have been developed to clear and strict guidelines, and offer a good mobile user experience. Back to our example above, the right hand image shows how the dot mobi Webdivine site displays in a typical mobile device.

If you would like to see how your website looks on a mobile device, please use the emulator on the dotMobi website.

A dot mobi domain will also limit the amount of keystrokes that need to be tapped into a phone. For example, www.webdivine.co.uk requires 35 keystrokes whereas mobile.webdivine.co.uk requires 47. However, webdivine.mobi, requires only 30.

If you would like to offer your customers a unique mobile experience, then please get in touch. If you would like to know what dot mobi domain names are available, please use the form on the domain names page.

Please call for more information on 0121 · 451 · 2508.

†“Mobile Web Audience Already One-Fifth the Size of PC-Based Internet Audience in the UK” comScore. Read report.

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