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Why build or host a mobile phone website

by Nic Sinclair

Its finaly happening, browsing the Internet from mobile phones is finally realy starting to taking off. Alot of this is down to the vast improvements in mobile phone tech namly the recent release of the IPHONE and copy cat modles . There rolling off the shelfs with some offering walkmans cameras gps satnav and other handy extras, and now of course mobile Internet access is in the hands millions of tech savy people — . A huge audience but bear in mind that most of them are viewing sports scores or downloading video clips ring tones, and not a lot else, but thats because theres not alot else.

The opportunity for businesses like us to serve up imaginative and useful content to their phones is tremendous.
More than 45% of mobile phone or pda owners around the world have browsed the Internet via a mobile phone or pda handset.
Market research agencies are speculating that mobile web browsing might become the next dominant Internet platform. For many consumer-driven companies this means that having a mobile phone website will be a necessity.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have recognised the potential of this market and are making great efforts to promote mobile ecommerce to users and advertisers. Most famous brands like Coca-Cola, MTV and Nike now have a mobile portal featuring content designed specifically for handheld devices.

As you all know this year the new top-level domain name, .mobi, was launched to encourage and organise the development of websites that are compatible with mobile phone browsers its clearly working as 10s of thousands have sold already. Most importantly, though, the operators have reduced tariffs and introduced low cost flat-rate plans. This means that an increasing number of your potential customers are using their mobiles to find local businesses products and services like us.

But up untill now the challenges facing someone entering the mobile phone website design field were significant; it’s not just the issue of learning a new markup language or two. To develop successful content, you needed to understand the technical limitations of mobile browsers, the diversity of hardware that is out there, and the practical difficulties and frustrations faced by users trying navigate from a phone keypad.

But not anymore i introduce you too The Henley Hosting Free Mobile Phone Website Builder:

Easily and quickly Build websites that will work consistently across all mobile phones as they 100% comply with W3C’s mobile web standards.

Free Mobile Phone Website Builder Features:

Henley Hosting Mobile Phone Website Builder
the easiest mobile phone website builder on the planet. Everything is step by step and wizard based. You simply cannot make a mistake with our mobile site builder even if you tried. Absolutely no technical knowledge, skill or experience is required. And the unique rollback feature ensures that you can always revert changes to your mobile website at anytime.

Fully Browser-based
You can start editing right from your browser, there is absolutely no software to download or install. If you can browse, and check email, then you can build your own mobile website.

Professional & Standards Compliant Design Output
With our feature-rich mobile website builder, even non-technical users can build complete, standards compliant mobile websites as defined by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) and the “Mobile Web Best Practices”.

Create content with images using an MS-Word like tool
WYSIWYG HTML Editor helps you create rich HTML content with text and images with absolutely no prior knowledge or experience in HTML.

Create attractive Mobile Websites
With Henley Hosting you can now choose from a range of attractive ready made design templates for your mobile website. Once chosen, you can go ahead and completely customize the content on the page as well.

Custom Form Wizard
Easily create your own customized form pages complete with checkboxes, radio buttons, pull-down menus, etc.

Receive Payments via Mobile
Receive payments made via mobile phones on selling your products/services

Audio & Video Clip
Add an Audio or Video clip to your website

Driving Directions
Enable your visitors to view step-by-step instructions to reach a specific location (your office, home, etc.) from wherever they are.

Click-to-Call
Add a link to your page that visitors can just click to call your phone number.

Last Modified Date/Time Stamp: Add a date/time stamp to your page to indicate when the page was last edited.

Auto-Redirect to PC Websites
Display your PC-website to someone trying to browse your mobile website from a PC/Laptop/Computer.

Online Image Editor
Edit images right from your browser and upload them to your website after making them mobile-ready. Editing features include Flip, Flop, Crop, Resize, Rotate, Brightness, Contrast, Raise, Frame, Border, Composite, Annotate, Save As, etc.

Hit Counter
Add a counter that automatically counts and displays the number of visitors to your website.

Last Modified Date/Time Stamp
Add a date/time stamp to your page to indicate when the page was last edited.

Tell a Friend
Add a link to a page that allows your visitors to recommend your website to their friends.

Google Search
Add a Google search box to your web page.

Google News
Add a link to the latest news snippets covering diverse topics on your web page.

Optimize for Search Engines
Add Title, Description & Keywords to your webpage to allow search engines to search and index your website more efficiently.

Google Sitemap
Automatically generate and add a Site Map page for your website.

Automatic Mobi-Readiness Test on Publish
Automatically tests your published mobile website for conformance to the Mobile Web Best Practices as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org) and dotMobi’s Mobile Ready standards

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Add to Phone book
Add a link that allows your visitors to click & add your Contact Details to their mobile phone’s Phone Book.

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~Free .mobi co.uk or com Domain name.
~Mobile Phone Website Hosting [1gb space 20gb data transfer].
~Easy Mobile Phone Website Builder.
~Wordpress mobile edition pre installed [+40 more php and cgi scripts].
~20 email adresses which can be read normaly or from a mobile device.
~24-7 fast support.
~Instant Activation
~eXtend Control Panel
~Domain control Panel

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All for only £74.99 per year
Theres also a full mobile phone website design and hosting service if you prefer not to use the mobile phone website builder.

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About Nic Sinclair Innovator     

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