Does anybody know of a good tutorial that will show me what I have to do to make my websites available on the mobile web? I've looked around and the only good ones I've found are from 2004. Are they still legitimate? I imagine this is changing at a much faster pace than traditional SEO so I expected to see some more recent documentation.
If you sign up to forum.nokia.com there are tons of pdf's which explain how to build xhtml mobile websites.
From my vague knowledge of the subject, I believe you need to keep your site really small and really simple, that's the only big difference from normal Use this as the head: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The rest of the coding is normal, though keep it really simple and clean. Look at http://m.gmail.com for an example
Make sure though that <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Code (markup): does not show up in Internet Explorer. If it does, IE will go into quirks mode and some weird things will happen
you can also use a service like handsetdetection.com to make your life easier when directing people based on their viewing device to the appropriate site / view
You can easily find it out by trying this free WAP page-maker, www.hooverwebdesign.com/templates/wap-page-maker.html