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Mobile website design is on a new height with the invention of the iphone. Now the web designers can easily go without making anything special for the mobile users. The entire web page can now be shown at a glance, or you can even zoom out the exact part you are interested in. this is simply because the iphone uses safari. However you can be guided of how you can make your page different from the others and attract more.

• Go on viewing and testing your site in iphones and in as many mobile devices as possible for you. This has to be done, because all come with different features.
• When you are going for the mobile web site design, do keep in mind that the degradation of your site must be done in a graceful fashion. Many mobile devices you will come across, that fail to support beyond XHTML Basic. So, it is most obvious, they will fail to handle Flash, Ajax, JavaScript, cookies etc. so, you must get sure that the important and the required information are getting showed in even those handsets.
• Your page must be wireless specific and are easy to find. This can easily be done if you are able to link the wireless page at the crown of your homepage and then hide it from view.
• One of the most important feature that can help you out is you don’t have to make any changes, if you don’t want it. The simple thing is that if your page is giving you the desired look in safari in your desktop, be sure that it will generate the same look in the iphone, just it will be smaller one.
• If possible make a long text column rather than a number of columns. You are so advised because the iphone screens are smaller and so, the pages has to be zoomed before reading, which are quite annoying at times. Moreover try to divide your pages in small chunks.

While going through your Mobile website design give attention for the links and the navigation and the choice of the images...

• Make your URL shorter.
• Try to avoid putting your navigation at the screen top.
• Choose small images.
• Images must get download fast.

Are you now thinking for the mobile web site design? Well, just go for it after reading the following which are to avoid while you are designing –
• Avoid use of flash as most devices fail to support the one.
• Avoid the use of cookies too.
• Frames are to be chosen thinking of the dimensions. Getting the access is not easy over iphones.
• Do not use tables.
• Try not to define the dimensions of objects in actual measurement.
• Fonts must be so chosen so that cell can access them easily.

Now it’s the time for you to go for the mobile web designing of your site and enjoy viewing the same in the iphone.