thanks, guys. all good news. With your comments, I feel a lot more confident about my direction for mobilizing my site. Most of my pages won't need to be mobilized and we follow most of the guidelines for phones already (not a lot of javascript, not heavy in manipulating stuff via css although some css is ok and simple html coding. I think the majority of the pages will work just fine, but there is a site we found www.bmobilized.com that can instantly turn your site into mobile ready only when they are on their phones with an option to have them bounce back to the main site if they want to rather than use the "mobilized" site. I don't know if we'll use them or another like site, but we're looking into it. Turns out that site is NOT good for login-based sites like my main site, but might work for another site we have for a different business.
Thanks again. kristine On Oct 11, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Frank Moorman wrote: > I also agree with the thought of not creating a different site... > > If your site is coded with an eye towards web standards, it should appear > decent and functional in any browser. The only real concern for mobile > browsers is screen resolution. However, even this should be treated without > grouping things as a "mobile" browser; after all can you tell the difference > between a phone and a tablet(which would have a large screen)? > > My personal thoughts are to only consider screen resolution when creating a > website that may be used by mobile browsers. However, even this may be moot > because mobile devices usually allow the end-user to zoom. > > I know for a fact that some of my websites have been used by people on their > phone. I do have two words of advice: > 1) Avoid extensive javascript (if possible, because that is the most > likely to be unsupported); and, > 2) Trim your input fields. I noticed that both android and iphone users on > my website will tend to have a space added to words that are > auto-completed(or spell-corrected) from their phone. > > > > > On 10/11/2011 12:02 AM, Howard Fore wrote: >> >> Keep in mind this article is from 2005. Much of his advice is not at all >> what I would do (and am doing) today. Is your site templatized? If so, use >> CFWURFL to sniff the the mobile users and then set a request flag to >> determine if the users get the mobile or "normal" templates. >> >> I also greatly disagree with the advice to create a standalone site for >> mobile. This destroys your position in search engines for mobile users. It >> also pushes the mobile users into a ghetto of different functionality. It's >> better to treat them as you would a different class of desktop browser (you >> know...IE). >> >> My two cents... >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:34 PM, kristine keigan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm working on making a webpage more friendly for mobile devices. I found >>> this "simple" step to convert a webpage to mobile friendly with some php. >>> >>> Question is....I know nothing about php. Does my server need software? Does >>> it need some sort of utilities or tools in order to run php or can I simply >>> create a php page and have it work just I would an html page? >>> >>> All my pages are .cfm on my own server so I'm wondering if this possible >>> solution will work for us. >>> >>> Here's the article I'm referencing: >>> >>> http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/07/make-your-site-mobile-friendly >>> >>> kristine >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ >>> http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform >>> >>> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists >>> Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ >>> List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ >> http://www.acfug.org?fa=gin.edituserform >> >> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists >> Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ >> List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > -------------------------------------------------------------
