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Ok! Tis the season to make predictions about where this site astonishing head of year and the rate for care in the world of electronic commerce.

I will say I’ve seen some other major predictions of this year, including some of my friends who say the “rookie” of the market and Asian markets will explode this year.

However, I want to talk about something that most of the “geek” to set the self-evident, but none of us fully understand the impact just yet: mobile browsing.

No, I’m talking about pulling the laptop around to find the nearest free hotspot, I’m talking tens of millions (if not hundreds-of-million) and mobile phones, iPods and other mobile devices are built to surf the web on the move .

With so much surfing power now in the hands (literally) of millions of people, anyone with an online business can no longer ignore the importance of this growing audience.

So what caused this epiphany about the great masses of the rights of mobile browsing? Simple!

I have an iPod Touch for my birthday (iPhone without the phone part), last month and realized I could surf the Internet via any available wireless network, the music and watch YouTube videos without my computer.

Of course, everyone in my family has a cell phone, but the power of the mobile Internet is not completely come to me until I sat in my chair laughing online “Gumby” Video Files directly to my iPod.

In my opinion, there is a changing world of mobile phone users out there that business owners line more (myself included) neglect.

But the big news is that you can begin to supply the mobile market is now easier than ever.

The following tips will help anyone who sells online (or want to sell online) make the site more mobile-friendly “:

- If your site depends surfers to see you on a specific browser size, consider creating a mobile version of your site and put a link at the top that says “mobile users click here”.

- Keep your code simple html and avoid using lots of graphics or dependent on a fixed width to display the text correctly.

- Use a text in a table display and graphics for the mobile device browser to “flatten” your horizontally to fit the small screen.

- Keep the navigation on your site mobile-friendly links to two or three top choices to minimize and reduce loading times.

- As mobile devices to load Web pages into pieces, put your most important information to the top of the page so that you can not force users to scroll too.

- Test your site at least one portable device to see how it looks.

- Test your site to the Opera browser (one of the most popular mobile browser). Download it for free http://www.Opera.com/download/, pull up the site in the browser, press Shift + F11, and that the site is for the mobile user.

By the way, which include web design, you realize that I have described how to build a website for back in 1996!

If you wan to hit the nascent mobile navigation market, the first step is to realize that they exist.

The second step is to simply make a few allowances your design to give them access to information on your site.

The last step is to keep your eyes on this emerging customer base and look for opportunities to serve.

Copyright (c) 2008 Jim Edwards