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Mobile Web

Ok, you have a web presence already. How about mobile? With close to as many mobile subscriptions as there are people in the world, more and more connect to the internet via their handsets, and expect to find sites that they can browse despite smaller screens. Maybe you should have a general informative mobile website for your corporate information, and another for one or more of your brands, products or services?

Despite all the talk about "apps" these days, the first initiative for corporates to get a mobile presence should always be to create a site for the mobile web, which is something Ztrive can do, and do well. If you already have a mobile web and instead need applications we can refer you to a few different and competent solution providers in our partner network, depending on if you need developers for iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, J2ME, and so on.

What it means with the "mobile web" is basically access to the internet via mobile phones, and the mobile websites need to support stricter versions of the XHTML format, restrictions in image formats and limited use of scripts and stylesheets, and of course smaller screensizes.

Ztrive has implemented a device detection system, which makes it possible to know exactly which device is accessing the site (e.g. Sony Ericsson model X make Y) and its capabilites, where screensize and resolution is the most important parameter for the mobile web. That way you can have a site displaying images in the appropriate format and size for any user accessing your site with its mobile phone, although those phones are different models. This system is based on an open source device capabilities listing, which is regularly updated to keep our list of supported devices current.

The "devices" in this list also include normal desktop browsers, so you could use this also to auto-detect whether to show the normal web or mobile web to a visitor, depending on if access is done through desktop browser or mobile browser. This is the way Google has implemented most of its own sites, such as Gmail, Google Apps, Google Search, etc.

Developing for the mobile web is very different from creating normal websites, since you must design it with a simpler structure and flow in mind, using less content in a more suitable "bit size" format.

Let us know what content you want to bring to the mobile web, and we can propose a suitable structure and representable design.