Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Mobile Websites - The Change in Trends

Trends have changed drastically in the past decades-new things and new technology has conquered the whole world. In the past when people used to spent considerable time communicating at social gathering, or activities. These days the scenario is completely different we now see people communicating more and more by using their cell phones.

Someone might be late getting home from the office, school or college, some might be running late to meet a friend, some might just be checking on distance family members, but there will be common theme among them , they all will be on their samrt phones either talking or texting. The usage and importance of cell phones has increased drastically, especially, after the arrival of smart phones,.I phones and Androids can be seen everywhere nowadays. .

According to Pew Research Center report one fifth of the population in America accesses web via cell phones every day. In 2010 the ratio increased to about 73 million Americans  Because so many people now access the Internet via their smart phones, this experience has to be catered with deliberate efforts in order to provide the users a good experience. And for that reason many website owners are developing their websites so they can be accessed via smart phones easily.

Now from the view of website owners many things are to be considered: with the main objective to make a good impression for the end user.. So what is it that end users are looking for when a business is developing a mobile phone website?
  • Users are looking for sites that gives adequate information in a brief manner and is specially designed for mobile phone user, meaning that the website is optimized with speed to reduce load times. Not only will this increase your traffic, but it improves the chances of users to return to the website or even bookmarking your site for future reference. 

Business can also advertise their websites by using a technology known as location aware technology that connects the users to your website when the user approaches a certain geographical location. Another advantage to having a mobile website is higher ranking on search engines. For example, Google and Yahoo will rank your site before those sites that cannot be accessed through mobile phones. Portability of mobiles is the key advantage that means anything can be accessed anywhere at anytime.

More efficient technology is used for mobile phone websites in order to make it glossier. Similarly a technology known as QR codes is used ( Quick Response Code) by mobile websites as it enables the storage of increased capacity of information, plus is more readily readable. Because of all these advantages it is comparatively than print pages as well.

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