With all the new generation smart phones featuring various web browsers, and the number of such smart phones out in the wild growing dramatically every year, it is becoming more and more obvious that these devices will soon be a significant market for online content developers. To further that cause ICANN has approved the creation of the .mobi top level domain for use as a designator of content specifically for mobile devices. Anyone who has viewed the normal web using such a device will testify that for the most part it is slow, badly rendered and hard to navigate. A “sub web” of sites designed specifically for devices with limited screen resolutions and navigation limitations will no doubt make such web enabled devices much more useful then the gimmicks most of them are now. Considering the number of mobile phones considerably outweighs the number of PCs, it will not be long before mobile devices will be a significant portion of your visitors, and it wouldn’t hurt to start preparing for that transition early.
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