Understanding Mobile Website Development

During the previous times, a number of site owners who wished to create a site for mobile users would use a different mobile theme for the site with a design that suits mobile devices. Some businesses also prefer to use a separate mobile domain. Mobile website development is an important concept that can fuel the success of your business on the online scale.

While using a mobile theme, you can instruct WordPress to shift themes in case the visitor is using mobile and remain glued to the desktop theme if the visitor is a desktop PC owner. In the mobile website development area the concept of responsive design has been emerging off late. Now, what is responsive design? When we talk about responsive theme, it is that theme which uses the same theme and styling for viewers of mobile site as well as users using desktop PC. Such a responsive theme uses a blend of a fluid layout and media queries to make the layout and content appear differently on different sized devices.

Following are some of the concepts surrounding responsive design:

Fluid Layout: This is a type of site layout that utilizes percentages for widths and not pixels. The result is that when the width of the browser window changes, the site also changes.

Media Queries: These are used to include additional changes to the CSS for devices of a specific width. mobile devices, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers etc are some of the widths generally targeted.

Responsive themes not just work for mobile website development but they can also transform the overall look of a site on tablets or on large screens.

Before beginning the mobile website development process, it is important to create a blue print of your website, its content, the features it will have and the best method to create the website. There are a number of web development options that are available. Following are the main alternatives for creating a mobile site.

Mobile plug-in:

With the use of a mobile plug-in you can create mobile-friendly site with minimum efforts. However, this doesn't leave much scope to use our own design into a mobile site. A number of mobile plug-in don't target tablets.

Off-the-shelf responsive theme:

The WordPress plug-in repository is replete with a number of free themes. All you need to know is how to tweak them so that your mobile website is more persistent with your desktop site.

Making own theme responsive:

This can be done by adding a fluid layout and media queries to the desktop theme which is already being used.

Creating your own mobile theme with the use of switcher which activates it on mobile devices:

This is the most useful method in case we desire our mobile and desktop sites to appear differently or contain unique content.

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