<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A little more on mobile&nbsp;Websites]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s been a bit more discussion of my post about sites that don&#8217;t work well on mobile phones (<a href="http://www.windowsmobilenews.com/websites-for-mobile-browsers.html">here&#8217;s a good roundup of posts on the Windows Mobile News site</a>). A lot of people assumed I was asking for Web designers to do a special site just for mobile phones. I was not.</p>
<p>See, there are a few simple things you can do to make your site work properly on a mobile phone. Like what? The biggest mistake I see most bloggers do is put their navigation div on top of their content div. Nasty cause that forces small screens to scroll down. One one site I visited tonight that took 43 seconds. I won&#8217;t embarrass that guy. I&#8217;ll film a video instead to show what I&#8217;m talking about since most of the comments I&#8217;ve gotten made me realize that many of my readers have never even considered reading a Web site on a cell phone.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing just how much you can read on a two-inch screen. It&#8217;s also amazing how much better RSS is than Web sites. Why? No pretty logos to scroll through and no multi-column layouts to make text hard to read. Anyway, this isn&#8217;t something most bloggers can fix by themselves. They need blog templates that have thought about small phones.</p>
<p>Is this important? Well, come to CES and look at my phone.</p>
<p>Update: Ralph Whitbeck asks: &#8220;<a href="http://www.damnralph.com/PermaLink,guid,6aef3210-a643-413a-8121-ddcbc0fd794f.aspx">Who really browses on their cell phone anyways</a>?&#8221;</p>
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