New iPhone 4. If you are already an IPhone user then you know that one of the best things about the phone is the way that it is able to give you the best internet experience out of all the other phones that are on the market right now. If you do not own an IPhone then ask someone who does. They will tell you that the IPhone is a great way to surf the net. And with the IPhone 4, the experience is sure to get even better. But if you are a web site owner, you might not have thought about the traffic that might come to your site from people that are using the web from their phones. This is still a relatively new experience for most web site owners so they have to get used to this new fact of life. People will try to visit your site from their IPhone 4. In this article, we will show you several ways that will allow you to make sure that your site is a great place to visit for someone who is using their IPhone 4.
Tools that you will need
The best tool that you could have is an IPhone to test your site out with. But not everyone will have that option. So instead of having the phone for yourself, you can either ask a friend who has one or you can download the browser to your computer that the IPhone 4 uses. This browser is called Safari 5 and it is available to be installed on both Apple and Windows computers. If you are a Mac user then you probably already have it installed. If you are a Windows user, you can get it from the Apple web site.
Now you are ready
Now that you have everything that you need, the first thing that you need to do is to make a second version of the site. Even though a mobile phone is able to show a normal web page, you want people to have an optimized experience when they visit your site. To have this, you must have a web page that is suited to the dimensions of the phone’s screen. Building a second site is not always necessary though. If you do not want to create an entire second page then you must be able to gracefully degrade the main page when visitors come to your site from the IPhone. This means that you have to have both a JavaScript code that will detect when someone is visiting from an IPhone and a CSS stylesheet that will accommodate those people.
You also must make sure that the page that renders for your visitor using the IPhone 4 does not have any Flash on it. IPhones are not able to play Flash objects so that part of the screen will be blank for them. Also, try to avoid having large images on the page. The processor is not as strong as one in a normal desktop computer so it will take the browser a long time to be able to render a large image. Make images as small as possible while still keeping some aspect of the quality and you will have a happy visitor.
That is it
As long as you follow these simple steps then your visitors will have no problem visiting your web site from their IPhone.
