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Sly Filters Goes Mobi
Sly Filters (Europe) Ltd is pleased to offer you a version of our main website that can be viewed on your mobile phone or PDA.
We have found that having a mobile version of our website, known as a ‘mobi’ version, means that our clients can access the main parts of our website directly from their mobile phone or PDA (or any mobile device that they use) so they no longer have to be at the desk or have a laptop with them.
While mobile websites are still in their infancy, the mobile version already offers benefits that our main website doesn’t, these inlcude;
- The ability for the user to highlight our contact telephone number, on screen, and then have their mobile phone dial it for them. This saves the user having to try to remember the number or having to write it down or even having to type in the number manually.
- Another useful feature is that the user can choose to save our contact details directly to their mobile phone for future use. Again, this saves the user from having to remember the number or write it down before manually entering our contact details.
- The ‘mobi’ version of the site also offers the user precise driving instructions from their current location to our office in Leicestershire where ever they are.
As mobile website technology matures we will be in a strong position to develop our mobi site to encompass the growing of this technology. It is also important that we stay ahead of web technology to enable us to provide our clients with the best possible user experience and deliver the correct information in a format that it most convenient to them where ever they may be.
View our new mobile site using any mobile phone or PDA at http://slyfilters.mobi
If you try to view the mobi site from your computer or laptop then you will automatically be redirected to our main website at http://slyfilters.com. This is to ensure our clients are served the correct format of website for the device they are using.
Looks neat! What are the differences between mobile and normal websites?
Hi Nate,
The real difference between websites for mobile devices and websites that are viewed on desktop computers or laptops is the way they are formatted.
Because mobile internet access speeds are normally slower than broadband speeds, the content for mobile sites has to be ’slimmed down’ to take this into consideration. As such, images are normally greatly reduced in size or removed completely.
The web page layout is also formatted so that it renders correctly. This means the mobile user does not have to scroll sideways to read the text.
In your question you made the reference to “normal websites”. Although websites that are designed for desktop and laptop viewing are ’seen’ as normal websites, very soon we will start to see more mobile users accessing the internet, and more often, than desktop and laptop users.
This will also cause mobile device manufacturers develop mobile devices with more advanced internet access and viewing capabilities.
Thank you for the helpful reply. Would you mind if I posted it on my ecommerce blog. I will give you credit. Thanks!
Hi Nate, Yes that’s fine.
I would appreciate it if you posted part of the article on your blog with the following link of http://slyfilters.com/blog/sly-filters-goes-mobi so that your readers could click the link to read the full article on our blog.
That way you would be linking directly back to this post which would be sufficient for giving us credit as well as avoiding any duplicate content issue of the full article.
Thank you for your permission to publish your reply. You can view it at http://buildecommercesite.blogspot.com/2008/05/special-edition-mobile-vs-normal.html. Thanks!
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