Comments on: Is the Mobile Web Set for Extinction? http://theregoesdave.com/2008/08/18/is-the-mobile-web-set-for-extinction/ life on the move Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:11:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: don http://theregoesdave.com/2008/08/18/is-the-mobile-web-set-for-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-4306 don Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:20:14 +0000 http://theregoesdave.com/?p=848#comment-4306 Mobile web is still just beginning. We now see phones as small computers. The computer manufacturers have just re-discovered that making small computers are really popular - i.e. eeepc and all that now follow. There will always be a need for people to browse for inportant information while away from their primary computer. I think it is essential that website developers and marketeers start addressing the mobile channel - before it passes them by. To our dotcom site, we get just under 3% of our total traffic from mobile devices. We detect them using handsetdetection.com and then customise the view based on phone, keyboard, touch screen, ultramobile pc etc. (the CMS we use supports multi templating). We never realised how many people visited our site from a blackberry until we started down this path. Mobile web is still just beginning. We now see phones as small computers. The computer manufacturers have just re-discovered that making small computers are really popular – i.e. eeepc and all that now follow.

There will always be a need for people to browse for inportant information while away from their primary computer. I think it is essential that website developers and marketeers start addressing the mobile channel – before it passes them by. To our dotcom site, we get just under 3% of our total traffic from mobile devices. We detect them using handsetdetection.com and then customise the view based on phone, keyboard, touch screen, ultramobile pc etc. (the CMS we use supports multi templating).

We never realised how many people visited our site from a blackberry until we started down this path.

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