Archive for Mobile Website
Google’s week in review: Google TV, Pac-Man, Android and more acquisitions
Where to start? Google aired new initiatives left and right at its Google I/O developer conference, such as Google TV and the Android 2.2 OS, but also made plenty of other headlines good and bad.
Let’s be charitable and start with the good, since it outweighed the bad.
Android on a roll
Google continued to ride the Android wave by previewing Android 2.2 OS, which boasts enterprise-oriented features including integration with Microsoft Exchange. The software, which had gone by the code name Froyo, will also be faster and support Flash, Google said.
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Mobile Web Design – Top 10 Tips For Designing a Great Mobile Website
Mobile website design is very different to designing a desktop website. Mobile web design faces many challenges, not least the fact that there is no uniform browser for mobile devices. Mobile website design also has to take account of different screen sizes. Here are our top 10 tips for a great mobile web design.
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Mobile Browser Detection
What if you could customize the content on your website based on which mobile phone visitors are viewing your site with? Could you increase your traffic? Could you increase the time your visitors stay on your site?
Could you increase the amount of repeat traffic you see? Could you make more money? I’m sure you could do all of that! Let’s take a look at what mobile browser detection is, why you would use it, and how to do it.
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Detecting Mobile Device Cabalities
Some web applications require interaction with mobile devices. A key ingredient when writing such application for mobile devices is figuring out which device “talks” with our server, serve it with best fit markup, and make correct business-logic decisions (i.e. send the correct video format, setup package, etc.)
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What is Mobile 2.0?
It is easy to assume that Mobile 2.0 means simply bringing Web 2.0 to mobile devices, but the driving force behind Mobile 2.0 goes much further. Mobile 2.0 isn’t about delivering PC content to our mobile devices, it is about delivering mobile content.
And, more than that, it is about personalizing the content.
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Minimum screen resolution for mobile internet
There was once a time when many mobile tech enthusiasts believed that a portable device could only provide the full internet experience if it had a minimum screen resolution of 800 x 480.
There were other prerequisites as well (Flash support, processing speed, page rendering, etc.), but a low-resolution screen was one of the immediate deal breakers. Gadgets that otherwise looked promising were often withdrawn from consideration as soon as their resolutions were revealed to be lacking.
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The Mobile Web browser is totally new.
The mobile browser has unique benefits, quirks, and workarounds. Partial and flawed implementations of web standards are commonplace.
Improperly formatted web pages can have drastic effects on mobile devices, including crashing the browser or resetting the device.
Advanced web features such as JavaScript and AJAX are highly desirable but
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Meta.txt Improving Mobile SEO
Meta.txt – A Standard for Improving Mobile Web Browsing and Discovery of Media
Executive Summary
Recently there has been a surge in articles detailing just how brands and mobile websites can become more visible on the Mobile Internet. From rules, to 10 point plans, to pages of best practices – the PC web is awash with advice. Many attempts have been made to simplify mobile website discoverability, however so far the responsibility has been on the webmaster to create a site that fits an ever increasing list of criteria – remember the user is in a rush; the screen on a mobile is a lot smaller than that of a PC; join a mobile site directory. No one has put much focus on a possible technology solution. Until now.
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Matt Cutts on the future of search: “Mobile will be big”
In the latest GWC video on YouTube, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of Webspam team, is answering a question about the future of search in the next few years.
According to him, search as we know it today is nowhere near done.
He explains that Google’s main ambition is to index more kind of contents, such as books, online calendars, and everything “in the cloud”.
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Mobile SEO Myths Exposed
You’ve probably heard many “experts” advising you to optimize your site for mobile phones, or to create a “mobile” version of your site and optimize that for “mobile search.” The process has already been defined as “mobile SEO”, and there are already many SEO companies making money by “creating mobile sites” and doing “mobile SEO.”
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