You can try mobilSiteGalore who provide the “build you own site” service for dotMobi, or you can try the Beeweeb plug-in for Wordpress. I like Beeweeb’s Mobile TV client, but when it comes to mobile websites their plug-in requires a PhD just to install it and figure out if the hosting server has the required PHP set-up.
My current favourite DIY mobi site builder is still Zinadoo. It’s so simple.
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1 tamberg // Jun 21, 2007 at 6:22 pm
http://www.mowser.com/
2 Zec // Jun 24, 2007 at 10:15 am
I’m still not sure we will need ”mobile web” sites in the future.
What is mobile web after all ? It was meant to be standard for putting Web into small screen.
Well, the situation changed a lot in recent months.
Apple iPhone is introduced and cleary thinks about ”browsing ” full web. It’s the trend that should be followed by other handset manufacturers with mobile tablets, sort of. Did you see Nokia even reallocated N95 to UMPC range of products ? Interesting development.
So, when we would have ability to have full Web in our hands developers would mobilise web service with widget concept.
The biggest loser in such a world could be ”mobile web” and java movement ( although, not so fast ).
3 Elmer // Jun 26, 2007 at 7:40 am
Zec, I would argue there is no need for mobile sites, and tools to create them. Yes the iPhone, N95, N90 and such are making a step to enabling the full-web on mobile devices, but there are interface design issues theat surround them.
The input and output is considerably different, with small screens, touch screens, keypads or any combination, and so is the experience of browsing a site on a mobile. Mobile optimized sites try to tackle these issues.
You could take two angles on this, bith of which are equally valid in my opinion, and that is that full web will be supported by mor devices, and that they will shape themselves around this experience, and on the other hand, there’s a mobile experience which requires the web to adapt to this new evironment.
For the near future at least I think being able to access the web on devices which in the hands of the public now and likely to stay there for a while is a valid reason to develop mobile optimized sites. Browsing a full website with the current state of the web, and current state of mind of webdesigners, and limitations on the large majority of handsets out there, is far from a good experience, however good the interface of the device you’re using to browse.
4 Flick // Aug 1, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Given the high charges for data over mobile networks, as non-expert I would argue that it is still worth focusing on Mobile Websites. As a general user (rather than a corporate client) I balk at having to load up standard/heavyweight websites just to look up information (eg. train times, telephone numbers, restaurants etc.)
One could argue that you could just use http://m.google.com but having tried that on a few sites, nothing really beats a truely mobile version that loads as little data as possible to give the max. info.
Besides, not everyone has the latest Nokia or smart phones.
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