Today’s technology is strengthening at a tremendous speed; with the web – and its current guise of Social Media – quickly becoming the vital resource that the majority of the population counts on – from keeping in touch to sourcing the ‘best deals’.
Until fairly recently, the majority of all users out there were browsing the web either on a desktop or a laptop computer, which made designing a website “to fit” user system requirements not an issue for webdevelopers. However, more and more users are now browsing the internet using web capable handhelds, mobile phones, smart phones and genius superior iPhones (had to get that one in 
), tablets and notebooks of all shapes and sizes. Therefore, the need to plan ahead during the design development stages will mean you won’t lose a large percentage of potential viewers coming to your site.
It’s one thing getting your traffic there, and to have a snazzy/flashy (those are the technical terms by the way…!) web design, but it’s more important to ensure that 100% of your visitors can actually see your site – and this is a point that is so often overlooked.
If you’re not sure how your site looks on a phone try the following mobile phone emulator .
If you want to see what your website looks on an iphone then try an iPhone Simulator – or this iPhone emulator and why wouldn’t you want to see your site on the best phone ever made … did that sound at all biased
And for those of you using Open Wave software on your phones you can download the phone simulator (PC only).
But nothing can replace testing on real phones, get your friends and family to check the sites for you or visit a local mobile phone shop and try your site on as many phones as you can – unless of course you can afford to buy all the mobile phones that are currently available 
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