The world is on mobile phones and as a business owner it is important to ensure that your website works on mobile devices of different screen sizes. A mobile compatible website opens the doors to reach out to customers using their phone to order products and services online. To achieve this, you need to use responsive website design techniques and choose the programming language wisely. For example: if you want a basic website or want to make an ecommerce website you can go with html, php or WordPress. On the other hand if your requirement is developing a web application, you use .NET platform or Java. In all these platforms you can design mobile applications or mobile friendly websites.
How a mobile compatible website works
The answer is simple, any website or a software application that works fine on a mobile screen. A website that adjusts according to the screen size to give a better viewing experience to the end user is a mobile friendly website.
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How to design a mobile friendly website
First of all, you make it responsive by using bootstrap or designing mobile specific interfaces in other technologies. The idea is to fit everything on the screen properly.
Make the website touch friendly
These days most people use touch screen based mobile phones. Due to this, you make the website touch friendly. From the size of the buttons to the colors of links, make sure everything is visible enough on the user’s mobile screen. Using too small or large fonts can also destroy user experience and result in negative feedback.
Speed of the Website & Performance
Different mobile phones come with different hardware configurations which affect the performance. In addition the operating system of the mobile phone also has a significant impact. Due to this, you need to make sure that the website works fine with minimum resources. For example: If you are running an ecommerce website, you can select a good ecommerce website hosting plan. You can use cache to store CSS and other files.
User interface of a mobile compatible website
Many suggestions you can pick from the above text. It is important to provide customers with an easy to use website. UI / UX designers can help you enhance overall user experience and design user interfaces that allow easy navigation with decent performance.