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| 10 Easy Steps To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly |
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Cathy Quel |
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Mobile phone and mobile devices have certainly taken over. More and more people are employing these devices to correspond and to do business. Your normal websites will not function well with mobile devices. So, what do you need to do to make your site mobile compatible and to catch the attention of everybody who is using mobile devices to do business? You need to make your site mobile friendly.
It's not that complicated to do. I have gathered the following 10 easy steps for you to follow. If you do each of these, your site will be mobile friendly and nobody will have trouble communicating with you or doing business with you via a mobile device:
1. Keep your website basic, not fancy. A snazzy website will not translate well to a mobile device. Keep things simple and stick to basic website construction.
2. Think about how your mobile clients will see your subject matter on your site. Use a mobile device yourself to monitor your own site. You won't know whether your site is coming through to them or not without basically checking.
3. Keep the ads down to a minimum. You might find that your ads are actually taking up too much space for mobile customers. You may need to move them to another area. Ads do not perform as well on a mobile device like they do on your website. Again, check to see what the ads look like on a mobile device.
4. There is special coding that you might need to do so that people can view your content correctly on a specific mobile platform. Your content will need to be in the best format for several mobile platforms.
5. Navigation works really well on a mobile device. Think of using more navigation for your mobile site. Use short drop-down menus. Make sure that when a customer picks your drop-down that the specific drop-down takes them to the appropriate page. Don't add layers to your site. Take your customers right to where they need to go based on what your drop-down menu states.
6. Make your links short. If you have ever tried to send a text message, you appreciate that at times it can be a challenge. While most people are getting really good at texting, it is still difficult to type in those long links. Don't irritate your customers. Make it an enjoyable experience.
7. Put one post or set of posts on one page. This goes back to making your site as basic as possible. Keep your content organized and make it simple to read on these small mobile devices. I like to keep one post on each page.
8. In place of having a generic entry page, put your content on the first page. It is always a good idea to keep your greatest and most current content first.
9. From time to time links just don't work properly on a mobile friendly site. A good idea would be to put your links at the end of your content. Your links may work well within your content on your regular site but they don't typically work well on a mobile site. If you put your links at the end of your post or content, it makes the site simpler for your clients to find their way through to them.
10. As far as navigation on your mobile site, a drop-down system or a hover navigation system works the best. These types of navigation really save a lot of space on the particular mobile device and will make it simpler for your customers to use.
Mobile devices are definitely the way of the future. So, don't sacrifice customers because your website can't be read on these types of devices. Use these 10 steps to make your site mobile friendly. Make your site simple to use and capture every customer you can.
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