Mobile Friendly Website on VPS Hosting

Since apple introduced their iPhone back in 2007, millions of people are accessing the internet via their mobile phones every day. With the introduction of the smartphone, that has amazing web browsing capabilities, every business was forced to rethink their website. If you are engaged in a business that depends on its online presence to drive income directly or indirectly, you should definitely think of making adjustments to your website in order to fit the millions of potential customers who might visit your website via mobile devices. And if you are a person who is planning your future online presence, you might want to think about making it mobile friendly before you buy VPS hosting and hosting it.

So I thought of giving you some tips on building your mobile friendly website on you VPS server.

• Create a designated mobile URL. The usual way of doing this is using your standard URL with a modification. The most common way is using the letter “m” before or after the standard URL.

Ex:

Google URL - http://www.google.com

Google mobile URL - http://www.google.com/m

• Do the designing of your website with a small screen in mind. Although PC monitors are getting bigger, mobile screens are not.
• Rethink the content. People who use the mobile phone for browsing are usually looking for useful information on the go. Typical mobile web users are not looking for shopping.
• Keep mobile consumption in the mind when organizing the content. As the mobile screens are very small, you have to organize your content in a way that requires the mobile user to minimize the scrolling experience.
• Minimize clicks.
• Limit the user inputs. It is often a frustrating experience to having to enter a lot of data to a website through a mobile device.
• Always use Java and not Flash. Java is the most mobile friendly website development platform.
• Think “vertical”. While your PC website is designed for a “horizontal” display, always make your mobile website vertically.
• Put links to your homepage and the previous page in every other page.
• Keep it simple!

Keep the above tips in your mind when designing your first mobile friendly website to host on your VPS server.