> What's the best way to handle making a website mobile friendly? Well that's a loaded question and the answer is, it depends...
Technically, you can simply provide a CSS style sheet for "handheld" devices which can re-format the layout of the site and turn off elements of the page that aren't particularly suited to mobile devices or alternatively you can create a standalone site. Either way, this will depend entirely on your requirements and I've done both in the past. As examples, my own hobby site simply uses a "handheld" style sheet to deliver a slightly different layout for the site to make it a bit more flexible for mobiles. http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/. This approach retains most if not all of the main sites content and functionality. One of our clients sites however uses a fully optimised for mobile "mini-site" that driven from the same CMS and is automatically redirected to if the visitors user agent matches those defined as being "handheld". The sites are served on two different sub-domains being http://www.krispykremejobs.co.uk/ and http://m.krispykremejobs.co.uk/ the latter of which is redirected to when the former is visited by a mobile. The mobile version of the site uses a much reduced set of features but enables the core functions to remain and has been quite successful in its approach. The two sites Krispy Kreme sites use a simple cookie to remember the users choice if they end up on the mobile site but would prefer to be on the full site by clicking on the "View full site" link in the footer. Likewise in the footer of the main site, the mobile link sets the same cookie to indicate the preference for the mobile domain. If no cookie exists the user is directed using the rule set as indicated above. This allows users with advanced smart phones capable of accessing the full site but usually identified as "handheld" to choose to receive the full site or vice-versa. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:351969 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
