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DudaMobile has rolled out a new premium service this week which allows you to hire a mobile website design professional to build out a custom mobile website for you.

What’s included in the new plan?

The Hire a Pro plan gives your mobile website all of the premium features it needs such as, Click-to-call, Click-to-map, and SMS business info. You will also have access to phone and email support with our rockstar Tech Support team. Another perk? Sit back, kick your feet up and let the professionals take care of designing a beautiful mobile website for you.

How does it work?

The process is effortless, seriously.

1. Head over to our Hire a Pro page and purchase your custom mobile website plan.
2. Sit tight and wait for your mobile site developer to contact you at the number you provide in the signup form (it won’t take long, I swear).
3. Let you developer build your dream mobile website for you.
4. Bask in the glory of your mobile website’s awesomeness.

How can I get the most out of my site?

You call the shots here. Don’t be afraid to speak up to help your mobile website developer understand what your business needs and what you want in a mobile website. Here are some things you can prepare before speaking with your developer to make sure you get your dream mobile site.

Prioritize. Go through your regular website and figure out which pages are the most important. Narrow down your regular website to the 10 most important pages you want your mobile visitors to see.

Think like your customer. Identify the most relevant information on each page to give your customers a great experience. Make your content clear and concise to speak to the services you offer.

Plan. Pull together any content or graphics you want to include in your mobile site that isn’t already in your regular website.

Define your brand. Make sure you’re happy with your company’s logo. Branding is key to a mobile website because it’s the best way for your business to make an impression on your on-the-go visitors.

Research. Take a look at our gallery of mobile websites. Choose a design or layout you like best. Looking for something in particular? Search our gallery by vertical to see what other businesses in your industry have done.

Convinced? Get Started Now

Not everyone has the time and energy to devote to building a professional looking mobile website. Stop procrastinating and hire a pro to build your mobile site today.

Woo Hoo!

We can’t keep the excitement in any longer! Over the holidays DudaMobile hit the one million mark of mobile websites built on our platform. Now that we’re back in the groove of the New Year, we want to celebrate!

Raise a glass, pats on the back and high fives all around! This is quite an accomplishment!

You’re one in a million!

A million thank you’s for making us the most popular mobile website builder available. We couldn’t have reached this incredible millstone without YOU! To those of you who have a DudaMobile mobile website, you truly are one in a million.

Check Out Our Faves

We pick favorites, don’t you? The Dudas combed all one million sites and set aside our top picks. Check out our gallery to see which mobile websites we thought were worth bragging about.

Help Us Hit Two Million!

The two million mark is on the horizon and we’ll be boogieing our way there. If you don’t have a mobile website yet, come join the party and get one now.

It’s a new year! What better way to kick off 2012 than with a new home in beautiful Colorado. Thanks to this week’s Mobile Website of the Week winner, you can finally say goodbye to your passé, 2011 living situation, and say hello to your new, humble home in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Congratulations to Homes by Campus for being this week’s Mobile Website of the Week winner!

Regular Website

Mobile Website

Things we liked about this mobile website

You created your regular website with what once was the cutting edge and most attractive technology in web design — Flash. The unfortunate surrender Adobe made to the web of their beloved Flash technology, left your transition photo gallery and smoothly animated drop down menus out of date.

We all know (or should know) that Flash is incompatible on smartphones. With the urgent time crunch to get your site looking great on the mobile web, developers have been figuring out clever workarounds when converting a flash site to a mobile website.

The Homes by Campus regular website mainly consisted of a Flash photo gallery and scrolling side bar which posed a problem when converting to mobile. We loved how Peder, the developer, figured out a workaround to create a Flash-less mobile website out of a Flash-packed regular site.

What’s a workaround and how did Peder do it?

Used frequently in the web programming and development space, the term workaround refers to bypassing an obvious problem in a system by creating a temporary solution.

When Peder went to convert his Flash-packed website to a mobile-friendly version, he noticed a problem with compatibility. In order to avoid the embarrassment of incompatible Flash elements from the home page taking up space on his mobile site, Peder created a workaround by simply rearranging the mobile site.

After converting his site to mobile, Peder completely deleted the home page. He quickly whittled his mobile website down to the content that mattered the most – house listings. The listings page is now the first thing visitors see when they access his site on a mobile device. Makes sense, right?

Minimal content and easy to use are the two things we loved about this mobile website. Check out m.homesbycampus.com on your smartphone now. What do you like about this site?

Find your own Home by Campus!

Homes by Campus provides current property listings for houses in and around Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. If you’re interested in renting a home around this bustling University, visit HomesbyCampus.com on your desktop computer or mobile device to browse current listings.

DO YOU HAVE A WINNER-WORTHY MOBILE WEBSITE?

Email me at theresa@dudamobile.com, tweet me at @dudamobile or contact me on Facebook if you think your site rocks.

Has your mobile site been published? If your site wasn’t published, we didn’t see it (and neither did your customers). Check our Support Center for instruction on how to publish your mobile website!

Big News! 

Duda’s Dennis Mink collaborated with Mashable to highlight the 6 most important tips to optimize your mobile website.

Read more about these helpful tips here.

Google, DudaMobile and mobilizers from all over the country gathered in Mobile, Alabama this past November to kick off GoMo, Google’s initiative to educate small businesses about the mobile web. Over the course of two days, over 400 small businesses in Mobile were given a free mobile website.

Take a look at this inspiring recap video!

We we’re pleased to find a Mobile Website of the Week winner whose site was as killer as the awesome drinks they sell at their restaurant. In honor of the brief siesta we took from the DudaMobile Blog while we mobilized Mobile, Alabama during the GoMo event, we would like to congratulate Cesar’s Killer Margaritas as this week’s Mobile Website of the Week winner!

Regular Website

Mobile Website

What did We Like About this Mobile Website?

Did you notice the variation in the different background images? We did. Flip through the mobile site’s pages and you’ll find that all content has been perfectly simplified for accessibility and easy reading on a mobile device. Optimized content on a website optimized for mobile device… what a novel idea!

How was this Mobile Site Made?

Cesar’s Killer Margaritas hired a mobile website developer, Chris from Tag Grafx, to create m.KillerMargaritas.com. Before embarking on this mobile site, Chris decided on which direction he wanted to take the mobile site. “I wanted the viewers to get the best experience possible with minimal hassle and full access 24/7″.

After converting the regular site to mobile, Chris noticed that the wrong navigation menu was identified as the mobile site’s main navigation menu. Through the advanced editor, Chris detached the original navigation menu, and reassigned the correct one to the home page.

To do this, select the entire navigation and in the right hand column, select Detach Site Navigation under Change List Design. This action will turn all navigation buttons into links. After this is completed, select the group of link which you would like as buttons in the navigation menu. Once selected, set them as the site navigation under Change List Design.

Now, diving deep into some of our absolute favorite parts of this mobile website, we loved how Chris chose to add a background image into the header, site background and behind the navigation menu.

This added a personal touch to the site as well as making the mobile site nearly identical to the regular site, which it why we liked it.

If content really is King, this mobile website would reign supreme. “Cesar’s Killer Margaritas mobile site is more condensed so mobile viewers can find the important information their looking for quickly on a much smaller screen”, said Chris. Slide shows and photo galleries were completely eliminated from the mobile site to increase page load time and save battery life.

Since he was building a mobile site for a restaurant, Chris made sure the menu looked good and was easily accessible.

“I like the menu page best because I’m a food guy.. aside from that, I think it showcases the menu’s variety clearly and quickly”. Small tweaks were made to the menu page, like bolding the header text of each item, to jazz up the appearance of the content.

Want a Mobile Website as amazing as this one?

Cesar’s Killer Margaritas is so busy making, well, killer margaritas, they left the mobile website design work to the professionals. Chris from Tag Grafx stepped up to the mobile website design challenge. With over 15 years of advertising, graphic design and marketing experience, the Tag Grafx team of artists creates bold, eye-catching and never before seen designs.

Contact Chris at Tag Grafx via email, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+ to get your website mobilized.

Get Your Hands on a Killer Margarita

Cesar’s Killer Margaritas has two convenient locations in the Chicago area. Voted one of the top authentic Mexican restaurants in Chicago, IL, Cesar’s offers a legendary drink menu including eleven luscious flavors of margaritas, eighteen tequilas, and half dozen Mexican beers.  Follow them on Facebook and Twitter to get exclusive meal coupons and deals.

DO YOU HAVE A WINNER-WORTHY MOBILE WEBSITE?

Email me at theresa@dudamobile.com, tweet me at @dudamobile or contact me on Facebook if you think your site rocks.

Has your mobile site been published? If your site wasn’t published, we didn’t see it (and neither did your customers). Check our Support Center for instruction on how to publish your mobile website!

As the 2011 summer-time wedding season comes to an end, we like to reflect on some of the hottest trending mobile websites which struck a cord in the hearts of hopeless romantics everywhere.

The Duda team oohed and awed over the enticing option of being wed on the beautiful coastline of Spain thanks to the simplicity and elegance of the mobile website, m.MarryInSpain.com and unanimously awarded it Mobile Website of the Week this week. Congratulations!

Regular Website

Mobile Website

What we liked about this Mobile Website

After speaking to Iain, the company and site owner, about his mobile website, I came to appreciate its simple structure even more. Iain said that the objective for his mobile website was to get site visitors to contact him. Knowing that mobile browsers spend little time actually reading the content on a mobile website, the methods of contact were the main focus of his site.

How This Mobile Site was Made

With the focus of the mobile website providing methods of contact to the visitor, the bulk of the work in creating the site was adding the widgets at the top of each page. Since Iain’s regular site was built from a basic WordPress template and contained only text and a few images, all of the content converted perfectly to mobile.

Each page of the site provides the visitor with three different ways to contact Iain.

The classic and highly effective click-to-call widget is at the top, followed by a click-to-email button which automatically opens up your phone’s mail client to a preset email. Iain placed a social media share widget at the bottom of the contact navigation menu. All widgets were added from the Add Features tab in the basic editor.

“I just wanted people to initially contact me after visiting the mobile site, not flip through the pages to find out information on their own”, said Iain. This message was clearly displayed on m.marryinspain.com, which is why we liked the site so much.

Get Married in Spain

Did you know that the Spanish coast is one of the top most popular wedding destinations in Europe? Book your Spanish wedding with Iain today! Send him an email or contact him on twitter fo find out more information about your future wedding.

DO YOU HAVE A WINNER-WORTHY MOBILE WEBSITE?

Email me at theresa@dudamobile.com, tweet me at @dudamobile or contact me on Facebook if you think your site rocks.

Has your mobile site been published? If your site wasn’t published, we didn’t see it (and neither did your customers). Check our Support Center for instruction on how to publish your mobile website!

Big news happening over here at DudaMobile this morning! If you haven’t already heard, Google’s new initiative to help businesses go mobile officially launched earlier this morning and we have been honored to team up with them!

DudaMobile has teamed up with Google to help launch GoMo, a nationwide initiative providing businesses with the tools and resources they need to create mobile websites.

“We are excited to work with Google to educate businesses about the benefits of the mobile web and offer solutions to enable them to convert their websites to mobile”, said Dennis Mink, VP Marketing. “Most business owners don’t understand the difference between a website and a mobile-optimized website, and how it can help them increase sales and revenue. So offering the education and the solution is key to driving adoption amongst businesses.”

With the rapid adoption of smartphones, the mobile web presents a real opportunity for businesses who enhance the mobile website presence. “Research shows that customers are more likely to search for information about a company first on their mobile devices or smartphones and get turned off if that website isn’t optimized for mobile.”

• U.S. smartphone users will reach 73.3 million by the end of 2011, representing 31 percent of the total mobile user population.
• By 2013, more people will access the web via mobile than desktop.
• According to a June 2011 Manta study, 69 percent of small business owners said that it is important for information about their business to be found easily via a mobile device.
• 61 percent of users called the business and 59 percent visited, after looking up a local business on their smart phone.

About GoMo

GoMo is a Google-led initiative dedicated to helping businesses ‘Go Mobile’ by providing them with the tools and resources they need to make their websites more mobile-friendly. On Google’s GoMo website, participating businesses can use the GoMoMeter tool to see how their own sites look and perform on mobile devices, and get personalized recommendations for developing a more mobile-friendly experience for their sites. The GoMo site has information about current mobile trends, best practices for launching mobile sites, a list of developers ready to help companies build sites for mobile, and much more. For more information, visit: howtogomo.com.