The first website I visited was Twitter and I was excited, I logged in and I was able to tweet and see the tweets of people I follow but unfortunately I was not able to see the links they shared in conditions since they have no mobile version. It was really frustrating waiting over 5 minutes for a page to load and just to get a message saying “Memory is full” when I tried to access Abduzeedo.com
Fortunately some websites like Smashing Magazine have a mobile version of their website and I was able to read an article, many other websites have great designs, awesome content but lack on mobile support.
Twitter is already accessed via mobile by thousands of users and provides a valuable service to many businesses.
Facebook is the World most active community with a strong base to develop new applications and capitalize on their own market. Mobile applications and businesses based on mobile web design and application development are already a reality.
As the mobile web, social websites and services grow I believe that mobile versions of websites will be a must in about 5 years time, maybe less depending on technological breakthroughs. It took
It’s time for bloggers and businesses to start thinking, testing and creating mobile experiences and improving their user / customer experience when accessing their services or websites through mobile devices.
More on Mobile Web
Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design is a very interesting reading and I truly recommend it to any front-end web developer. You can grab a preview sample of Mobile Web Design.
WordPress Mobile Plugins:
Joomla Mobile Extensions:
I would like to ask you to share tools, thoughts, methodologies or tutorials you might know regarding the mobile web. What are your thoughts on the emerging trend of accessing internet with mobile devices?
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