What do I need to do to make my site viewable on a cell phone?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by vitalbusiness, Sep 13, 2010.

  1. #1
    I am able to view my site on the phone, but I was wondering if I still need to adjust the HTML.
     
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  2. GreenT

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    #2
    Use a smartphone emulator to test how your site performs on a mobile browser.

    If you want to specifically target mobile device users, you should create a special mobile site that makes less use of images, multiple columns etc.

    http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/07/tips-to-design-your-site-for-mobile.html <--- This is the best tutorial I could find on the topic. That post's quite old, but you'll get the idea.
     
    GreenT, Sep 14, 2010 IP
  3. zuchrivious

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    #3
    detect mobile user agents, make several stylesheet to adapt them
     
    zuchrivious, Sep 14, 2010 IP
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    Yeah, use redirect for mobile users to page with simpler layout.
     
    Martenxxx, Sep 24, 2010 IP
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    If u want it to be viewable on newer cellphones and smartphones u can do a redirect for mobile users with the user agent but if you want it to be available to ALL cellphone users I would reccomend WAP (http://www.w3schools.com/WAP/wap_intro.asp)
     
    nzk0, Sep 24, 2010 IP
  6. vitalbusiness

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    Thanks everybody!
     
    vitalbusiness, Sep 25, 2010 IP
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    #7
    Creating special sites and pages just for mobile is old school thinking but the OP apparently is satisfied so....
    And anyone who is still doing browser (user agent) sniffing is a relic from the 90s.
     
    drhowarddrfine, Sep 25, 2010 IP
  8. seattleseojm

    seattleseojm Guest

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    #8
    I typically design for all 4 major web browsers, high end mobile, low end mobile.

    These are three different layouts based on the same database. However, the first web/high-end feature JS while the low end is pure CSS.

    The reason for this is to optimize the users experience, and not be a lazy webmaster =]
     
    seattleseojm, Sep 25, 2010 IP
  9. zuchrivious

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    try design frameworks for multi device, older/low end device would still be a problem though
     
    zuchrivious, Sep 26, 2010 IP
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    Just one opinion. Can Script that identified the type of browser, and depending on it to send different outputs?
    It some interesting PHP solution: "http: //detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/"
     
    infoman66, Sep 26, 2010 IP
  11. seattleseojm

    seattleseojm Guest

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    theres a lot of ways to manage this, all of which are free :)
     
    seattleseojm, Sep 27, 2010 IP
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    WAP is probably the best and most efficient route to go when developing content for mobile device users.
     
    barutiwa, Nov 22, 2010 IP
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    For smartphones the standard websites are nearly all fine. My sites can be viewed fine on smartphones, but it would depend on the penetration of smartphones in your target market I suppose. If penetration is low, something like WAP is probably the way to go.
     
    WestportClan, Nov 22, 2010 IP
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    Use a smartphone emulator.
     
    noahqw, Nov 23, 2010 IP