Seattle Website Designer - Kool Kat Web Designs

With mobile becoming more and more important, many web designers and developers are creating websites specifically for this platform. However, many sites designed for the computer web browser display reasonable well on smart phones. As a user of an Android-based phone, one thing that always annoys me is that phone numbers on the sites are not clickable. Of course, if you code something like:

<a href="tel:+15551112222">555 111 2222</a>

you will get an error if you try to open the link in a computer web browser.

So, should we all at least use some “light detection” capabilities such as Lightweight Device Detection in PHP? I am beginning to think this may become more and more important.

Just take a picture with your barcode app on your smart phone.

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Having tried and then given up working a .mobi site, I decided to try WordPress Mobile Pack. So far, its working quite well although I see I need a few for tweaks and optimizations.

Just launched my .mobi site. On your phone, just try koolkatwebdesigns.mobi

Of course the new iPhone uses a real web Browser, Safari. However, the actual screen size is quite small. Should web designers take this into account? I don’t really have the answer and hope other web designers will weight in on this topic.