Is your website mobile friendly? When visiting a website on a mobile phone, there is nothing more frustrating than waiting for a site to load that contains large images or having too large of a page to read on your mobile phone.  Simple navigation and typing become critical when using the small screen.

Mobile websites should be designed to be small, simple and distilled down to their most crucial aspects.

Mobile websites are frequently viewed on screens as small as 1.1 x 1.4 inches (176 x 220) such as the Sony Erickson in the picture to the right. Lack of space on the small screen and slower Internet connections requires presenting only the most important information.
Mobile web design involves keeping the content clean, short and easy to read on a cell phone. Graphics should be few and very small, adding just an accent.

How many navigation links should you have on a page? Scrolling a page with many links on it can be very cumbersome because the scrolling action on many mobile devices selects each link in turn.  Fewer are better. 3-10 links are considered normal for a mobile web page. The design should be a balance between a large number of navigation links on a page and the need to navigate multiple layers within a website to reach information. A visitor should never have to drill down more than 4 layers.

Web page content must be reduced to the bare essentials so visitors have access only to what is most needed. Choosing only what is most important requires you to select only critical parts of your main website. The content presented on a mobile website should be the highest priority information to the average mobile visitor.