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I spent a bit of time today surfing the web to learn more about what is involved in launching a new dotMobi website. What I learned really surprised me. There are some excellent free tools and resources out there being offered by authority sites that can help you to quickly and painlessly build a new .mobi compatible website in just minutes.

mobiSiteGalore offers a free, browser-based mobile website builder tool that guarantees a fully .mobi-compliant mobile website. Their homepage boasts that they have over 20,640 user sign ups (as of 5/20/08) and an average time to build a dotMobi compliant site of only 54 minutes. This same tool is also being offered on the mTLD website at www.site.mobi.

Another great resources for people interested in developing a new .mobi compliant website mTLD’s Dev.mobi This site offers free training and ebooks about .mobi and a free emulator to . The resources on this site are well suited for developers who really want to understand all the ins and outs of this new technology. However, it also has a lot to offer for web savvy individuals (like myself) who do not have extensive programming knowledge.

Once you’ve built your new .mobi site, it’s a good idea to check in to make sure that it meets the industry’s best practices & standards. Ready.mobi’s testing tool evaluates mobile-readiness providing a free report and in-depth analysis of site pages to determine how well your site performs on a mobile device. You can also view your mobile web pages on a PC to see what the site will look like on many popular cellphones with this site emulater tool.

These free tools seem like they will give every business, organization and individual the ability to develop their own mobile online presence with very little investment of time or money. If you have used these tools or if you know of any other great resources that should be added to this site, please leave a comment below so that all of our readers can know about them.

One of the easiest ways to get started quickly with a new mobi website is to use a basic template. Below, I have compiled a list of websites that offer downloadable templates that you can use to quickly develop a new mobi site and create a web presence that is easily viewable on mobile devices.

www.mobisitegalore.com - this site is awesome!
www.mobiwebdesign.com
www.boxedart.com
www.drupal.org - allows regular .com drupal sits to be viewed as .mobi format
www.mobinomy.com - interesting dotMobi info
www.dev.mtld.mobi
www.mporia.com
www.pligg2u.com
.mobi finance template

www.templates-mobile-namecard.qarchive.org

If you know of any other good sites offering .mobi templates, please leave email me or leave a comment with the URL and I’ll add it to the list.

I work for a successful ecommerce company and we recently had a strategy meeting about the benefits about creating a web presence on a new .mobi site. The conversation got me thinking about all the exciting possibilities of a world where we can access the entire web from a hand held device. This new .mobi movement is still in it’s infancy but it already promises to be one of the most exciting new developments on the internet over the coming years.

I decided to started mobi-templates.com in order to help small businesses, organizations and individuals to create a .mobi presence now. My goal is to make this site an authority in teaching website operators how and why to launch their new sites on a .mobi platform.