My perspective... Don't treat your mobile site users as second-class netizens by leaving out content available on your main site. There are users out there who have chose (due to economic reasons usually) to use only their smartphones to access the Internet, instead of paying a large bill or their smartphone Internet access, plus another bill for home desktop/laptop access.
I believe in putting every bit of the information that you can find on the desktop site on every version of the site, be it the smartphone, 7" tablet, or 10" tablet version. I don't think there's any information that would be of value to a desktop user and not a smartphone user. And, as a previous poster suggested, I believe responsive design is the way to go. I help my clients with Internet marketing, as well, and it's much easier to use responsive design and only have to promote one domain across all platforms, that to have to promote, www.clientsite.com, www.clientsite.mobi, or m.clientsite.com. Hope this helps... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:19 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Making a website mobile friendly We'll probably have to have a separate site because there's just too much to hide. I appreciate the links and comments Che and Paul! On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Paul Vernon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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:351987 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
