Even if some access your business website/blog from galaxy tabs and iphones which make
viewing regular web pages suitable, a mobile version of your website can improve visitor’s
experience thus conferring several benefits to you and your site visitors; faster loading
time, easy-to-read version of your website, improved interactivity, reduced bounce rate and
the asurance that your website contentcan be accessed from a wider range of phones.
Creating a mobile version of your website may not mean breaking off an arm or leg in terms
of cost and expertise. The web is awash with a number of solutions out there that make it
easy to go mobile with your website, both free and subscription based. Without gainsaying,
the websites built on WordPress platform have a lot of cause to smile.
Characteristics of equipment is a small screen, processing capability and memory limitations.
So by loading a complete webpage for desktop computers as a positive work overload for the
device. By converting your blog or website to a mobile version, you are sure of getting more
visitors and be available for your readers even when they do not have access to a computer.
1. MoFuse
MoFuse is currently one of the world’s most popular platforms and it is being used by over 23,000 blogs for their mobile versions. It uses RSS feed to develop a mobile blog and automatically redirects your mobile visitors to your mobile blog.
Some notable “big-name” sites are Mashable and Read Write Web. MoFuse gives you tools to even promote content, build and measure your audience participation, and even monetize the website (using Google Adsense For Mobile or AdMob).
It has both the free and paid versions.
MobiSiteGalore is a mobile website builder configured to help people build, publish &
share a full-fledged mobile websites that is easy and able to display conveniently on any mobile phone. It also has design templates which allow you to customize the layout, colors, fonts and
pages which means you will be having a mobile version which suits the look and feel of your original site.
You can host website wherever you want. This service is completely FREE and is supported by donations.
3. WP – touch
WPtouch is a mobile theme designed for WordPress-powered websites. This theme is stylish and is modeled after Apple’s design, looks and feel. What’s more, it loads quickly, looks smart and projects your blog as if it were a web-application.
It simply just delivers a wow experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod, Android, or BlackBerry mobile device.
This you’ll need to buy. see their social website
4. Google’s Conversion Utility – Yes! Google is also in this market ( are they not everywhere?) though not yet a flagship product. it only requires you to enter the url of your website and whoa! Google creates an optimised mobile for your website. Simple.
Mippin Mobilizer helps ‘mobilize’ your website in just a few quick steps, thereby giving you full control over the branding and logo. The creation is free and also enables you to monetize your mobile site through advertising in partnership with AdMob.
6. Mobify
Mobify gives you full control over the layout of your mobile site with CSS; thus helping to make WordPress, Drupal and other websites mobile-friendly. Supports iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and 4500 + supports over 5000 mobile devices. It also gives you tools to manage mobile advertising and analytics.
7. Wirenode
With Wirenode having some popular brands like Reebok and Ford, Wirenode is one of the top mobile platforms with nearly 40,000 mobile webpages.
Setting up your mobile platform can be done very quickly by providing features like mobile widgets, RSS mobilization, mobile polls and forms.
8. WP-tap
WPtap delivers mobile themes/pluginsdelivers solutions that instantly converts your WordPress site into a web-application experience when viewed from iPhone, iPod Touch, touch-based
Blackberry, and Android smartphones.
WPtap offers not just your skeletal RSS site, it comes the complete standard WordPress
blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. WPtap also
offers many customization features through a user-friendly WordPress admin panel.
The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. This wordpress plug-in includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.
10. Winksite
Winksite was the first standards-compliant mobile Website builder that included RSS-driven content deployment and mobile-tuned community features such as forum, chat, and polls. without having to download any file, it allows you to create the site and event make money from leading advertising networks ( including Google AdMobile). Your revenue share is 100%.
Winksite does not take a share of the revenue that your mobile site generates ( I wait to see how this lasts).
11. MobilePress
MobilePress is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.
MoFuse, MobilePress and WordPress Mobile Pack are for me top range products in this field and I will gladly recommend such. You can use these platforms without knowledge of web design or CSS technicalities. it also affords you the opportunity to create a new mobile site, convert your existing blog or website into a mobile site and earn money by monetizing your mobile site.
Now you have a large number of people willing to visit your site. The mobile website of the Nigerian Vanguard brand was responsible for overtaking the nairaland as Nigeria’s most visited indeginous website.
Getting your visitors hooked to your website may become your next strategic move.