How to Design a Mobile Website

Mobile websites are becoming more and more popular as the use of Smartphones picks up at a fast pace. People love their mobile phones. Whether you’re walking down the street or inside a shopping mall, sitting in a coffee shop or at the airport, half the people around you are looking down at their cellphones. So, how do you design a mobile website?

The elements you need in order to make a mobile website functional and easy to use for your visitors

Your main website colours can be incorporated into your design as can your main logo or graphic header. The point of a mobile website is to make it as quick loading and simplistic as you can. So what you need to do is make sure the header graphic you use is resized to fit a mobile screen.

In regards to information, I recommend you take only the most vital information and have some simple tabs for each one on the front page. What you have listed depends on your business. Remember, you don’t need every tab showing on the home page.

By all means list categories on the home page which lead to other pages on your mobile site. This will make the mobile site easier to use for visitors.

You should, without a doubt, place your contact information on the mobile site as well as all the places you are listed on social media, such as, – Twitter, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. Don’t forget to add a link to the desktop version of your website.

When it comes to content, you don’t want to fill each page with a novel’s worth of writing. Keep it simple and straight to the point. Additionally you can add an opt-in newsletter.

Designing a mobile website is not so complex as the desktop version of your site. If you’re not sure how to do it, hire a professional mobile website designer.