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Amazing Tools to Check Your Website On Mobile Devices

With the burgeoning smartphones market and the rapid growth of tablet market, the Internet is now accessed by people in various new ways. Technology has shrunk the world and made it possible for people to carry their world in their pockets wherever they go. An increasing number of people now use their mobile devices to browse the web, and this means that you must take this into consideration while creating your website.
You must make sure that your website is mobile devices friendly, as only then will you be able to reach out to your potential market.

Unless people are able to access your website through their mobile devices, a large part of the market will be left unexplored.

But, how do you go about it?


It can be quite time consuming to test your site on mobile devices, and expensive too because there is a huge number of different cell phones available.  

Thankfully, there are some handy tools that you may use to make sure that the smartphone users can easily access your website on their mobile devices.

iPhone is one such excellent took that you may use to test images and codes for free in a Apple-Safari powered environment.

It allows you to test all the normal features such as Landscape and Portrait modes, plugins, zoom, and fullscreen.

W3C mobileOK Checker is yet another excellent web-based validation tool which helps you check how compatible your website is.

These tests are validated against the 3C mobileOK Basic Tests specification, which is developed by W3C.

Adobe Device Central CS5 is an amazing tool that imitates the function of mobile devices on your desktop, enabling you to test Flash and HTML right from your desktop.

Some other tools that allow you to check the mobile-friendliness of your website are Google Mobilizer, Gomez, MobiReady, DotMobi Emulator, and Opera Mini Simulator.

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