Getting and Serving Mobile-formatted content As you know a lot of websites haven't yet cottoned to CMS rule of "write once, publish everywhere". Some very popular sites still have only standard pages. Curbed.com has a .5Mb home page. How do you use the site with the mobile phone you have? And what if you want to serve mobile content on your website?
1. __Getting Content__ Google has a mobile optimizer. Type in a site's URL in your phone browser and it'll attempt to strip it down to something you can read. Add this link to your phone or PDA: http://google.com/gwt/n Thanks to Jeff at Palm Addicts for this [http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/01/i_stumbled_onto.html |tip]! 2. __Serving Content__ Mike at MikeIndustries.com has posted an article about [http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/07/make-your-site-mobile-friendly |"Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes"]. He walks you through a PHP prepend script that strips out inappropriate HTML, disables the style sheet, and returns just the content. It's quick and a little controversial (check the comments), but right now it does the job for me. You can check out my site: [http://ChelseaNYC.info/] (for the full browser) [http://10011.info/] (for the mobile browser) If you have tips for getting or serving mobile content, let us know! RobKelley -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
