This document discusses why it is important to build mobile-specific websites. It notes that mobile web browsers can be unpredictable in how they display content, and that desktop-oriented websites may not display properly or be easy to use on mobile. It suggests designing websites with mobile screens in mind, through tactics like removing unnecessary navigation, using skip links, and ensuring readable text formatting and colors on smaller screens.

1. Why you
should build
mobile
specific
websites
aka the
Websledge

3. Mobile web
browsers are
unpredictable

4. Now this is
mobile
friendly

6. Fullscreen
on a
mobile
device

7. Opera mini
settings

8. Opera
zoomed in

9. Internet
Explorer in
single
column
mode.
Fun with
background
images

10. Ashul give
Deb a pay
rise. Smart
move
background
colour on
hover

11. Links or
text the
same
colour as
background
image or
colour

12. I know
black is
fashionable
but black
text on a
black
background

13. There is
the proof.
The
mystery
text

14. Image
replacement
does not
always work

16. Tables are
no longer
tables but
a single
column of
cells

17. Opera Mini
in zoom
mode

18. Opera Mini
in fit to
width mode

19. Do you
really need
that much
navigation
on a
mobile

22. After
scrolling
through 11
screens
you see the
advantage
of skip
links

23. Not
everybody
uses skip
links

24. And then
there is
Flash

25. Should
Microsoft
know
better?

27. Created by Nick Cowie
http://nickcowie.com
for WebJam Perth Aug 2007
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Commons Attribution 2.5
Australia License.
The individual websites are
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