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It’s true – navigating on the Internet from a mobile phone is still not widespread, at least in Italy.
However, this is not so much a question of technological development as of costs.

If we consider that:

• Throughout the world, the number of mobile phones is three times greater than that of PCs;
• Practically all mobile phones currently on the market have web access availability;
• Google maintains an ad hoc index for "mobile friendly" sites ( Google Mobile), and Yahoo has decided to focus on mobiles with a range of products (Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 and Yahoo! oneSearch) and a series of agreements with the main operators;
• In May 2005, W3C, the consortium leading the development of the World Wide Web, announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) for the definition of guide lines for the development of websites destined for use by mobile devices;
• In May 2006, the domain .mobi was introduced to identify those web pages developed for accessibility by any mobile device;
• Business start-ups with innovation in the mobile phone sector are beginning to receive considerable financing;
• Services based on localisation, such as GPS and RFID technologies, are being definitively developed and will be capable of providing a local context for content obtained from the web;

It is easy to deduce that now is the moment to think about how our websites can be correctly accessed, not only from PCs, but also from mobile phones, palm-helds and smartphones.

How do WebSite X5 created sites behave when viewed with mobile devices?

The answer we can give to this question is that the results are positive.

There are a number of factors that concur to rendering the sites created with WebSite X5 correctly viewable and navigable even from mobile phones and palm-helds:

• Conformity with standards with the creation of pages in XHTML;
• Automatic creation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specific to mobile devices;
• Correct alignment of the page content whose pagination is not defined through the use of tables;
• Automatic predisposition of skiplink within pages to allow the direct passage to the menus and/or the content.