I have a need to do this and I was wondering if anyone had any tips or good resources for doing so.
Obvious concerns are dup content as I was thinking that I could use an old site and style it accordingly, like xslt?
Any ideas/suggestions/what not to do?
Cheers
We had a couple of the early iphones at NonCon Charleston (2008) just to review our sites. Surprisingly, the iphones did so well that I basically felt there was no need to worry with regard to my simple travel sites.
What concerns do you have regarding content? Or perhaps it's the market share of phones that don't perform as well as iphones?
Blackberry.
I know the iphone does an amaxing job, but sometimes when I have a lot to read I like the clean versions that appear in front of me instead of having to double tap or slide around the screen. I dont care what the graphic designers have done, I want the content.
If you run WP, install the WPtouch theme. Awesome for mobile.
I hate when I come across sites with the WPTouch theme. Makes every site look the same.
I can browse most sites just fine on my iphone and android phone.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather you leave it alone.
No wordpress I am afraid.
>Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather you leave it alone.
pfft jangro you don't click on the right stuff anyway! hehe, good to see you man.
I just about ignore mobile, but have used the plugin.
>>I just about ignore mobile
But a lot of characters dont just ignore it. We are not your typical audience
Sorry that was my ontopic bit to get a hello at jangro.
I'm not saying I it should be ignored, I just haven't taken the time. I should say it's on the list, but actually it's not.
Is it your site that you showed me? In particular, is it the image size? Or, do you think the whole site needs to be reconfigured for better usability? Move left column nav, that sort of thing?
It is that site, but others.
I am looking for answers as to whether it is worth the hassle/pain and if so the best way of doing it.
If it is primarily images that causes your sites' content to scroll offscreen, I've found a pretty easy way to dynamically resize them. That functionality was the reason my sites did well enough on fanboy's iphone in Charleston.
I've never used these guys, but a little while ago there was a lot of talk about the system at Mobify (http://mobify.me/) for making a quick mobile version of your site.
I looked down the mobile route. I get orders from phones. They display the site well. So I agree with RC.
Blackberry screen is so small that I can only see it with glasses on, but my site displayed OK.
The only site I have come across that I wished they had a mobile site is the met office... and now they have one.
The Technology will catch up soon for Blackberry, so why worry Rich?
Looking at the last 1MM visitors to one very consumer-oriented, john q. public type, website, mobile visitors are 7.2%.
Of them, the vast majority are Safari mobile (iphone, ipad, ipod touch) at 6.4% of the total.
Blackberry is 0.4% and the rest are Opera and IE mobile browsers that barely register on the scale.
As long as the full site works well in Safari, I have a hard time justifying doing anything special for mobile, and especially for 0.4% of visitors who can probably get by anyway, though to be honest, I don't really know.
To give some gauge of the types of visitors, it otherwise has pretty standard regular browser numbers.
IE: 50%
FF: 21%
Safari: 13%
Chrome: 9%
(Good to see you to Drastic.)
check out M&S for a nice mobile site - they auto detect the operating system and serve an appropriate site - not looked at what they do re dupe - I think the mobile site is blocked but because they detect if you search via a phone you end up in the right place. Apparantly during busy periods instore they get people ordering on their mobiles rather than queuing.
You might want to look at Mippin.
Wo good examples. Think m&s have won though.
I will check them out more. Thanks.