According to a recent Ofcom report the UK is seeing one of the fastest growth in smart phone take up. With the increase in smart phones the use of the Internet on mobile phones has mirrored this rise. This is unsurprising when nearly all smart-phones have good quality browsers to access the web. Accessing the Internet through your mobile phone is becoming common practice these days.
Many website owners, are missing out on this growth in potential customers. By not offering a mobile friendly version to their visitors. Something that many customer focused companies have already seen the potential of this growing market and have already started offering mobile friendly alternatives for their websites. Any business owner, will tell you one of the key rules of a successful business is being ahead of the competition.
Small businesses should be on top of this trend. Creating a mobile version of your website doesn’t need to be time consuming or expensive. There are many tools out there that will help you create an effective mobile website without much technical knowledge.
We’ve created a list of tools top help you get the job done, without too much technical know knowledge needed. Most have easy to use graphical user interfaces (GUI) to make creating your mobile website as simple as possible.
1. Hostpapa goMobi
Hostpapa’s GoMobi service is a cost effective solution that has been designed by dotMobi to help businesses quickly and easily create & publish quality mobile websites in minutes. Hostpapa’s goMobi service offers quick and easy setup. Automatic device detection, so visitors will automatically be redirected to a mobile friendly version of your website. As well as multiple design options to let you customise the look and feel of your site. Hostpapa’s goMobi service is £3.59/month.
2. Onbile
Onbile is a free platform for creating and maintaing your mobile presence. In what they claim can be done in just 5 minutes with their 5 step process. You have the option of choosing from around 15 templates which are all customiseable to your liking.
3. Mobify
Mobify Studio is a self-serve solution that makes designing and managing a mobile website easy. All you have to do is select content blocks from your existing site, style the mobile version, and launch. The mobile site is live instantly and automatically reflects content updates to the desktop site, without a separate CMS. Mobify service is $249/month however they do offer a smaller free service in return of a link back to their site.
We’ve only managed to scratch the serfice on some of services out there are many other services out there. The most important part is finding a service thats right for your website and you visitor’s needs.
