New wave - Mobile Internet Development

Internet is growing rapidly, and mobile internet adds jet to it. Few months before, many mobile companies started to introduce smart phones and internet ready mobile devices. The browser manufactures also started to release their mobile version of popular browsers – one best example is Opera mini browser. Opera mini is one the best browser I have used for mobile internet browsing. I am using a Nokia S40 Device, but I heard that Opera mini is showing a lot of magic in Nokia S60 and other advance models, including smart phones.

As many of us know, the websites for mobile should be little different than usual websites. If you take a look for available mobile websites – they will have less graphics, easy navigations, and smart way of information display. This helps to load the pages quick, and saves the internet browning cost.

There are many developers working on developing websites and web designs. The emerging mobile internet world will give them more opportunities to build mobile websites, mobile web apps and related content managers etc.

While developing mobile websites – just keep these points in mind.

1. Always choose Single Column Layout for Mobi Site Web Design. Two or more Columns make the site slow and also incorrect content display with many devices.
2. Decide your menu Items while planning for mobile site– and show them as breadcrumbs. It helps for better navigation in many devices. Limit the website for less than 10 pages.
3. Use XHTML for coloring the

tags – avoid images as much as possible. If you want to show photo gallery or similar stuff – give them options to use Flickr viewers, Picasa Viewers through Snaptu or related tools.
4. While using Images, compress them to low file size – keep them with always.
5. Try using simple Server side plug-ins for RSS integration or Twitter calls. It saves the loading time. For Videos, and other downloadable content – give them options to download in PC / and save it to device later.

The future devices will have more facilities to browse internet sites – I expect the mobile browser providers will also come up with new additions. The internet browsing cost is also becoming less now days, it will improve the usages. I suggest – the small and medium size teams, should learn more on working with mobile internet apps / sites – I am sure it’s a next level business.