wireless application protocol
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008WAP is a commonly used acronym used in the mobile community and stands for Wireless Application Protocol. WAP is a means of presenting and delivering wireless information to mobile phones and other mobile devices used to access the Internet. Creating WAP websites has been rapidly growing in popularity now that so many people are using their mobile phones to access the internet.
Believe it or not, it can actually be quite easy to make WAP websites for any existing website or simply to create a completely new WAP website. There are online services available that allow you to create and customize these mobile WAP websites. One of the best services available based on the unique features available and surprisingly low cost is called Mobilemo. They even have a free service available for creating personal WAP websites and a free 15-day trial offer for creating business WAP websites.
If you create a mobile site using Mobilemo, their service will automatically convert the website to the right size, layout, and format so that it is compatible to be viewed on all mobile phones and devices. They also let you instantly create and customize your own mobile WAP website without requiring you to have any special skills. Here is a highlight of some of their more unique features:
• The easy-to-use control panel contains everything you need to create and customize your own mobile Wireless Application Protocol website by mixing and matching the different tools.
• You can combine text with images using the text-wrapping feature to make any photo or image fit perfectly with the text.
• Users can choose from a wide range of customization tools, including themes, fonts and colors .
• The broadcast tool lets you make announcements to all your contacts.
• The dashboard tool gives you a nice overview of your Wireless Application Protocol websites, allowing you to see the number of pages you created as well as the responses received.
• You can conduct simple surveys with visitors to your WAP site through the voting and polling tools.
• The forms creation tool lets you gather data from viewers and easily create membership and registration forms that visitors can easily complete and send to you via their mobile phones.
• The guestbook tool provides an easy way for visitors to send you their contact details and the comments tool lets you create a comments section allowing visitors to leave thoughts or suggestions they may have.
• Each of the mobile site tools includes an email alert feature that informs you via email each time someone answers your surveys, forms, enters comments, etc.
• The file storage tool allows you to upload files through a PC and retrieve them through your mobile phone. Files stored in your briefcase are private and accessible only to you.
• The file sharing tool lets you upload pictures, music, ring tones, etc. to a shared folder so they are available for site visitors to download on their mobile phones.
• There is an emulator tool that allows you to view your Wireless Application Protocol website as it will appear on small mobile phone screens.
• You can also select who you want to allow to view your WAP pages and download your files by adjusting the privacy settings.