Mobile Conversions

Gone are the days when Internet access referred to a clunky computer monitor and screen. Many people now access the Internet via smart phone, Blackberrys or even regular cell phones. Because of this growing practice website designers and developers need to focus on mobile format websites too. But no need to get nervous about having to learn new software and programs, there are a couple of online services available to help you create or convert websites into mobile format.

Google's Conversion Utility's name speaks for itself. A simple program that just needs your website URL and an indication to include images or not, select the 'Go' button and your website is successfully converted to mobile format. Regardless of the fact that it's not so publicized, it's a great program.

The Mobify program is just as it sounds. Mobile modification. This is a web service that uses DeviceAtlas, the leading mobile device database, to provides an efficient way to convert a site for mobile access. Many web designers and bloggers find Mobify a wonderful program for designing visually engaging and easy to use mobile layouts for their existing websites.

Skweezer.com is another user friendly site for mobile conversions. Enter your site URL and it will display your website in its mobile friendly version. It removes any large images, CSS styles and their elements that will not display properly once converted.

MoFuse and Winksite are two really neat programs that have the ability to detect a visiting mobile user . They will then send them over your site's mobile version!

As always when designing a website, it is important to keep things simple, how much more so when assigning styles for mobile devices. Because they in general work slower than computers you want to avoid anything that will slow it down more, like large images or weighty pages. It's also a good idea to scale page elements by screen size rather than fixed pixel widths because handheld mobile devices vary in their own screen sizes and resolutions. You want your page to look top notch no matter on which screen at what time!