Chico Webmasters provides professional and affordable mobile web design and development. Our services are geared toward helping organizations further capitalize on their website investment and to better-establish their online presence. We offer complete mobile web design packages starting for as little as $450. We can make mobile versions of existing websites or design a completely unique mobile-device experience for your visitors. Contact us us today to learn more about our services and prices.
Mobile Device Usage in the United States
The mobile web has emerged as the latest frontier in website development as more and more users access the Internet via smartphones, tablet devices, and PDA’s. In fact, many leading industry analysts project that within a short number of years, mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most common method of accessing the Internet. This trend simply cannot be ignored if one hopes to succeed in the online marketplace.
Taking Mobile Device Users’ Needs into Consideration
The Need for Good Mobile Web Design
If you own a smartphone, please pull up your current website and see how it looks on that device.
Warning: you may not be pleased with the result.
Your website was most likely designed for the desktop experience, where screen sizes are large and resolutions are high, and not for mobile devices. If you try this, you will most likely need to “zoom in” to the content in order to see it clearly, and clicking links (especially from drop down menus) is also extremely difficult. The fact is that when users access the Internet with iPhones, Blackberrys, Droids, or other handheld devices, their viewing experience and needs are quite different than that of average desktop users.
More importantly, if your content is not visually appealing – which it will not be if it’s a desktop site viewed on a small mobile screen – you are likely to ‘turn off’ potential customers visiting your website via such devices. Since mobile website viewing is growing exponentially, this could leave you at a disadvantage.
QR Codes
Advertising with QR Codes is an easy and effective way for our clients to bridge the “real world” and the “mobile web.” Advertisers are increasingly using QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) with astonishing success. Through the use of QR Codes, organizations are able to “link” a physical code (which can be placed on advertisements, flyers, brochures, t shirts, cups, etc.) to a website. Users can scan these codes with their mobile devices and be instantly taken to your content.
Accommodating mobile users is no longer optional. Prudent businesses are zeroing in on these users and making it as easy as possible for them to access their products and services. Allow Chico Webmasters to help create a mobile-friendly website for you and to to help improve your marketing efforts by linking to that site via QR Codes.
Contact us today and share your needs with us so that we can provide a professional solution for you.