She got in touch with us not too long ago. Her brief was simple. She wanted a blog that would be primarily accessible on mobile devices. She also wanted a fairly short but striking domain name for it. And she wanted it all at rock bottom pricing.

She came to us at The Mobility Company and we had just the thing for her. The result is a relatively simple mobile website that meets her needs. We got her a domain name (www.ortentik.com) and hosting, then setup the blog and tweaked it for mobile. Simple. Nothing fancy.

Lady Ortentik is mobile-friendly and has no desktop interface. Our client wanted a site where she could share what I would call her “raving craziness” with friends – all of whom used Blackberry devices and a sprinkle of other smartphones – and strangers alike. Just mobile, she said.

Of course, you can view the same mobile layout on a desktop still, if you don’t mind that.

A little shameless plug: we do mobile right; so get in touch with the Mobility Company for a range of mobile-specific services today.

Do visit Lady Ortentik on your mobile phone!

More and more, the mobile web is catching on and website owners are developing mobile-friendly versions of their websites. While this trend has not quite caught up in Nigeria, a number of Nigerian websites are already either mobile-friendly or have mobile versions of their websites. The list includes:

• The Punch
  Web: punchng.com
  Mobile: mobile.punchng.com
• MobilityNigeria
  Web & Mobile: mobilitynigeria.com
• NgBot
  Web: ngbot.com
  Mobile: mobile.ngbot.com/m/
• Alireta
  Web: alireta.com
  Mobile: alireta.mobi

Mobile websites tend to be lean and use up less bandwidth than full desktop websites, so they are useful for people with low bandwidth or narrowband access. As such, they can help keep browsing costs down. Mobile websites also load faster than their full web versions.

Analytics software for this website shows that 18% of MobilityNigeria traffic is currently from mobile users.

A great resource for finding all kinds of websites with mobile versions is WapReview. It has both a desktop version (wapreview.com) and a mobile version (wapreview.mobi). It also has a directory of mobile websites from around the world, Nigeria inclusive, so you should bookmark that site.

When browsing on your mobile device, do you find mobile versions of websites useful in anyway? If yes; which mobile websites do frequent? If no, what are your reasons for prefering full web versions?

I have had plans to do regular reviews of Nigerian websites with a view at looking at how mobile-friendly they are.

The reviews will focus on websites that have been developed to be mobile-friendly. From there, we plan to create an online directory of Nigerian mobile websites for public access on Mobility Nigeria.

Hopefully, we can also help drive some extra traffic to those sites whose owners and developers have been visionary and taken the pains to make them mobile-friendly.

Here are the requirements:

1. Nigerian websites that automatically load a mobile version when you access them on your mobile phone, or
2. Nigerian websites that present you with a link to their mobile versions on their homepage when you access them on your mobile phone

Please submit your contributions using the comments box below. Thank you.

We are building a directory of Nigerian mobile sites.

So, please post the URL of your WAPsites and mobile-friendly/mobile-OK sites in the comments box below. In addition, if your website has a separate mobile version, please post the address to that as well.

Thanks!