Creating a Website that Works on Mobile Devices

Tablets and smart phones are taking over desktops as the most preferred medium to access the Internet. This makes it all the more important for websites to cater to an audience that may be visiting your pages through devices with inconsistent screen sizes and resolutions.

Here are a few approaches your custom website development agency should consider to create a portal that is easily accessible on mobile devices –

Adaptive or Responsive Designs

The easiest way to create a portal that is easily viewed on mobile devices is by choosing to use responsive web design techniques. This approach allows your pages to automatically adapt to the screen size and the resolution of the device, hereby providing a consisting browsing experience to all your viewers.

Making your Content Mobile Friendly

In addition to the overall design, you also want to make sure that your text, video, sound and images are all conducive to the mobile environment. Consider the following approaches –

- Incorporating the Brand

Avoid cutting the content to such an extent that it makes it hard for the audience to identify with it. By making sure you have maintained consistency with your icons, logos, fonts and other color scheme you can create a similar brand experience on your mobile site.

- Simplifying the Content

Mobile devices come with screen sizes that are significantly smaller than a desktop or laptop. Instead of including long paragraphs of text, it is recommended that you use shorter blocks that are easier to read. Chances are that the visitors of your website are reading on the go and you want to make sure that you make it as easy for them to digest the content as possible.

Finally, make it a point to keep text entry as low as possible. Handheld devices are not extremely user-friendly when it comes to entering a lot of text. Rely on drop down menus and other checklist options.