FAQs - Directory of Mobile Friendly Websites
What makes a website mobile friendly?
There are a number of factors that make websites work better on mobile devices. If you'd like a detailed discussion then please read the W3C mobile recommendations. If that's a bit to technical for you, I've summarise some of the more important points below.
- Small Page Sizes
- I'm not talking about font size here, but the actual size of the page in bytes to download. Mobile users typically have slower connection speeds and sometimes even pay by the amount of data they download. It's for this reason that pages must not be any bigger than they need to be.
- Good Quality Code
- Good quality code means XHTML compliant code. You can check your code using any of the various validation services available on the Internet, such as the W3C HTML validator.
- CSS Layouts
- In the interest of separating layout from content, and ensuring a good semantic structure of your page it's a good idea to separate presentation from content by using CSS Cascading style sheets to control the look of your site.
- Flexible Layouts
- This ensure users of very small screens aren't required to scroll horizontally across sites with a fixed width. Flexible width layouts mean they can automatically shrink to fill the size of the screen viewing them.
How can my site appear in this directory?
Well firstly the obvious requirement is that your website is 'mobile friendly'. Read the information above and see if your site complies. There are services online that can check your site's compliance for you, such as ready.mobi.
If you're confident your site is ok, then please fill out our application form.