.mobi; the Friend of Mobile Devices
Written by nadz on August 30, 2008 – 6:24 am -Please rate this article
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Loading ...Internet access through mobile devices has become one of the rapidly developing areas of internet and the web hosting of .mobi (dot mobi) sites has drastically increased. Although the mobile devices such as smart phones and pocket PCs can access normal websites for getting information, traditional web sites are too heavy for mobile devices. Usually traditional web sites use large pages (in size) where heavy graphics, layouts and other objects such as flash embedded. If you are to access these “heavy” web pages through a small screen and very limited bandwidth of mobile devices, the user experience would not be pleasant.
When websites for .mobi are designed by developers, they need to make sure the web pages are fully compatible with mobile web access by reducing their weight, screen size etc. Also, objects or graphics created using flash won’t be used frequently. The web designers should make sure that only the essential information is displayed in the web pages and no unnecessary information and graphics are displayed.
Although .mobi is the youngest domain extension for top level domains, it is making headlines already and there are millions dollar sales happening at the moment via .mobi sites.
When it comes to traditional websites, you can build your own website using a vendor supplied website builder through the web browser. Likewise, the mobile devices users are offered the facility for building their own website through the mobile web browsers. This is actually being .mobi technology matured to compete with traditional web.
Among hundreds of advantages of maintaining a .mobi sites for your business, there are few disadvantages as well. There need to be two websites maintained separately; one for traditional web access and other for mobile devices. This increases the risk of web security, maintenance overhead and information redundancy.
Since .mobi is sort of a certification that the web site is optimized for mobile device use, you can use .mobi site for your information needs on the go without any hesitation.
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