Millions of people are using smart phones to access and use internet. Mobile web usage keeps on growing day by day. These people spend more time browsing through websites using their smart phones than by using their computers. This is because of the presence of rich mobile applications and services. Now the smart phones are capable of rendering web pages like a normal computer browser and are supported by mobile devices with Symbian OS, Blackberry OS, Windows mobile, Apple iOS, Google Android, Maemo. According to Wikipedia “As of May 2011 Google said that 400,000 new Android devices were being activated every day—up from 100,000 per day in May 2010—and more than 100 million devices have been activated.”
Flurry, a mobile analytic firm recently published an article on daily interactive consumption between the web (both desktop and mobile web) and mobile native apps like Games & Social Networking. According to them daily time spent in mobile apps surpasses desktop and mobile web consumption.
Based on all these facts it is very important to have a mobile version of your website or blog. This is required because the mobile version will be used by a great percentage of your customers or readers. This will not only improve the readership base of your blog and that results in increased number of page views and revenue.
There are many tools available to create the mobile version of your website. If you have sufficient technical knowledge, the you can create the mobile version of your website by yourself. If you create by yourself you have the power to decide what should be there on the mobile version and how exactly it should appear. If you use wordpress as your blog or website platform, then there are many different plugins available to render the mobile version of your blog or website by automatically detecting the browser type.
How to create mobile version of your blog or website?
The best idea is to develop a custom made mobile version of your blog or website. If you are not technically strong you can opt for some of the free tools that offer the service. You can read more about How to Create Mobile Version Of Your Website or Blog?
How to create mobile version of wordpress sites and blogs
If you use wordpress as your blogging platform or your website is powered by WordPress then you can utilize the power of wordpress plugin to create mobile version of your website or blog.
Read more about the Best wordpress Plugins to Create Mobile Version of Blog
How to make your blogger blogspot blog Mobile friendly!
Blogger is another popular and free platform to create blogs. It is a great tool to maintain a blog. To know more about how to create a mobile friendly blogspot blog read the article “Enable Blogger Mobile Template and Be Mobile friendly!“.
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A great article !!!
Bloapp (http://www.bloapp.com) is a new service that is free and more convenient. It allows bloggers to convert their blogs into a native iPhone app in less than 5 minutes.
@Kelly
Thanks for sharing this info.
Hi,
As a starting point it's useful to see what your website looks like on a mobile device. We couldn't find anything decent on the web so we built a free tool to do this http://www.sayuconnect.com/mobile_check.php
We don't get it right every time but mostly we do. I hope it's a tool that your readers might find useful.
Tony
Tony,
Thanks for sharing the link.
Hi, nice website, i like it, thanks for all the information