9 free tools to help you create a mobile website

Google Mobile Optimization changes your regular Website to a Mobile Website in the fastest time possible. The link provided here leads directly to a lightweight version of the Site, without headers, images and other graphics. Although this service makes your Mobile Website completely non-customizable, it is still very suitable for viewing on users’ mobile phones.

iWebKit provides you with a very simple framework to develop your own basic applications for iPhone and iPod touch. This tool can be used effectively by you even if you have only a little knowledge of HTML. However, it is not as user-friendly as some of the other mobile website builders mentioned in this post. You will need to read the user manual and understand the same well before venturing ahead to work with this tool. In any case, this is suitable for beginners, as it provides all the necessary instructions and is also available for free.

Mippin is another useful and free tool to help you create a mobile version of your Website. This is best suited for working on a website that supports RSS. It can be controlled to be compatible with over 2,000 mobile handsets and also gives quick results. The biggest advantage that Mippin offers you is that it offers basic analytics reports for free and also allows you to earn additional income by mobile advertising.

Mobify runs on a freemium model and provides you with a user-friendly and intuitive graphical user interface. This tool helps you create your website in just a few minutes. Better still, Mobify includes its own Mobile Commerce platform, designed to work especially faster and more efficiently for e-stores running on the mobile Web. The basic plan is available to you for free and gives you enough scope to handle your mobile domains. Although the paid plan is quite expensive, it gives you more benefits than the free plan.

MobilePress is a beautiful WordPress plugin that helps you create a mobile version of your WordPress-powered Website with ease. This useful, free plugin is easy to work with and completes its assigned tasks with very little time and effort on your part.

Mobilize by Mippin is another free and useful WordPress plugin that easily displays the content of your WordPress Site on mobile devices. When you install and activate this plugin, it will automatically redirect visitors accessing your website from their mobile devices to the mobile version of your Website. Not only that, all your photos will be automatically scaled to fit the size of your mobile phone and videos converted to 3GP format.

Winksite supports W3C mobileOK and .mobi standards and works best on mobile sites that focus on site promotion through social networks and engagement. The tool offers multiple options like chat, polls, and forums, using which you can instantly connect and stay in touch with mobile users. Not only that, but you can also attract visitors by asking them to participate in your forum; share your information among their friends and even refer more users to your forum.

Wirenode is a tool used by several leading establishments, such as Nokia, Ford, etc., to develop mobile versions of their own Websites. The company offers a free plan, which includes a user-friendly editor that you can use to set up a mobile website. The tool also gives you free hosting for up to 3 mobile websites and provides you with analytics reports, statistics, and more. The paid version of this tool runs Wirenode ads for free