What is best and free website or utility to convert website into mobile site

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by fileultra, Mar 19, 2015.

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    I noticed some like dudamobile but they are not really free.
    Is there any freeware utility or website that can do basic conversion to mobile website?
     
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  2. moneyroad

    moneyroad Member

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    getbootstrap.com/
    add some css rules with media queries
    websites must be responsive design, othervise you will loose hudge amount of traffic from mobile devices. Plus Google can see that as well and lower your rankings in SERP if users can not reach you from mobile device as well.
     
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  3. deathshadow

    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    If you need some automated tool to piss all over your site in a broken attempt to make it mobile friendly, it is entirely likely that your ENTIRE site needs to be pitched in the trash and started over from scratch; this is since a PROPERLY written accessible website shouldn't need more than 2k of code to make it "responsive" and therein useful on smaller displays.

    Was your existing website built with a semi-fluid elastic design? Using dynamic font sizes with as few things stated in pixel measurements as possible? If so it's a 20 minute job that a amateur would ask $40 for, and a pro would dot the i's and cross the t's for $200.

    If however, you have some crappy fixed width layout, that some ignorant halfwit photoshop "designer" duped you into thinking was a website, using px metric fonts and nothing remotely resembling progressive enhancement or graceful degradation -- your best option is NOT to blindly throw more code at it, it's to throw it away and start over doing the site PROPERLY.

    Since any PROPERLY built website of the past seven years should already be mobile friendly, and any PROPERLY built website of the past decade should be a no-brainer to fix. Sadly, too many people start out dicking around in photoshop, screwing around with outdated and outmoded inaccessible site building techniques, then stand there with their pants around their ankles when it's time to actually worry about being useful to visitors to the site.

    ... and if that's the case, no automated "tool" is going to help you, that's just throwing more garbage on the pile because NO program is smarter than what should be between the ears of anyone building websites. Sadly, that's also why so many sites are slow loading painful to use disasters.

    Could we see the site in question? Would allow us to give you a much better idea if you're in good shape to fix it up in 30 minutes or less, or if it's a disaster that needs to be nuked from orbit... as quite literally it could run the full gamut between those extremes.

    ... and the only thing some tool/utility for conversion would do in either case is turn you into the tool. Just like all the other halfwit tools like WYSIWYG editors, frameworks, etc, etc...
     
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  4. braulio

    braulio Active Member

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    Fileultra: You can use one of the following frameworks: 1 ) foundation (zurb foundation.zurb.com ), 2 ) bootstrap ( getbootstrap.com ).
    We recommend foundation zurb.

    Both require working knowledge of html and css.

    We have foundation working knowledge, experience. All our new customers sites are made using foundation. Plus, we are migrating existing customer with desktop platform to mobile friendly platform using foundation. Your case falls into the migrate from desktop platform to mobile friendly platform.

    Please be aware that starting April 21st, 2015, Google will give greater weight to mobile friendly sites in mobile searches ( smart phone ). This is an important change and we are stressing all our customers to migrate to mobile friendly.

    Please contact me directly using my profile page contact information so that we can answer any additional questions.
     
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