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Optimizing Websites For Mobile Use

With technological advancements in mobile technologies increasing on an almost monthly basis, the business world is attempting to get caught up. This is especially necessary when it comes to having customers access your business website over their mobile device. Many websites do not function properly on mobile units, and getting a mobile compatible site up is a great way to increase business. Globi Web Solutions announces a new service to offer Web site owners mobile-friendly sites.

As more and more mobile technologies become Internet accessible, consumers are using devices like cell phones or PDA?s to access the Web but face either slow or totally unusable sites. Making lightweight PDA and cell phone-friendly Web site versions available will allow mobile consumers to get the information they need. Even though most cell phone providers offer data plans on their phones now, the data transfer is extremely slow, making it impractical and unrealistic to expect visitors to browse a graphically intense Web sites.

Also, many cellular data plans are extremely expensive and charge by the MB, so a 100k homepage may not only be useless to visitors, it would additionally incur them huge bandwidth charges.At the very least, a Web site should have a landing page that indicates when a PDA or cell phone is attempting to navigate that site. This landing page would contain the most critical information you need your visitor to get. Of course you can make your whole site phone-friendly by creating a duplicate copy, but that`s between you and your budget.