Is your site ready for mobile?
http://ready.mobi24th of August 2007
During development of one of our web application for mobile phone I've found this website. It allows to check how good your site is prepared for mobile devices. There are few really cool things about this:
- estimates time and cost of downloading a home page
- shows how site will look on few cell phones
- checks against W3C guidelines
When a page is validated we can see how long it will take to download using Wi-Fi, 3G network and GPRS. Also there is a small graph that shows how expensive it will be. How they calculate the latter or how accurate it is I don't know.
The other feature is a phone simulator (Java applet). It presents our page as it will look on given phone. Very useful especially when I was used to design pages for "big" screens.
The last feature, most technical is the list of tests ran according to W3C standards for mobile pages called MobileOK Basic Tests. So we have to forget about tables, big images, popup windows and other nasty practices. But we have to remember about alt and tittle attributes, style sheets and access keys.
It will be nice to achieve 5 but currently my record is:
