Comments on: Who Serves The Mobile Web?

By: Stormy

Stormy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:44:04 +0000

Wibbly’s actually got a .mobi theme and address, so that all the serials are viewable (no pics, news etc, just the story content). It’s basic at the moment, with a prettier version in the works.

It looks great on smart phones, but it works fine on any WAP-enabled phone.

http://www.wibblypress.mobi

By: Alex McG

Alex McG — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:55:35 +0000

@ Jim Zoetewey : I use a wordpress plugin to manage a mobile version of my site as well, and it seems to work. It's probably the same plugin you're talking about; it's called MobilePress and can be found here.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:51:56 +0000

I’ll be dropping by a friend’s place tomorrow, and she’s got a Nokia N-series phone with a web-browser. I’ll drop by and pass you some feedback if I remember to check it out over there.

By: Adam Maxwell's Short Stories

Adam Maxwell's Short Stories — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:29:49 +0000

@Jim – yeah a blogger friend of mine installed that although I don’t know what the success/failure rate of it is I have heard it is pretty good.

@Eli – I have installed the redirect script on my homepage now and it appears to automatically redirect you although so far it has only been tested on Nokia’s – let me know everyone!?

By: Jim Zoetewey

Jim Zoetewey — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:07 +0000

As someone who uses WordPress for my own site, I recently discovered a plugin that automatically creates a version of the site for mobile phones. I haven’t installed it yet, but I probably should soon.

That being said, I’ve noticed that people are already reading my site on their iphones (and the occasional treo) without it.

That’s a good thing since I paid no attention to that issue when putting the website together.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:54:25 +0000

Incidentally ... there are some interesting lessons over at the Flickr development blog about creating a mobile site. Worth a look.

By: Adam Maxwell's Short Stories

Adam Maxwell's Short Stories — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:10:29 +0000

At the moment you have to go directly but when I get a spare few hours I have found a nifty little php script to redirect.

@Chris – thanks and you should do one for your own, we are always being told that the demand on the mobile web is growing by the day and yet the content does not seem to be out there to fill it… yet!

By: Chris Poirier

Chris Poirier — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:29:56 +0000

Looks great on an iPod Touch. Makes me think I should consider doing one for my site. :-)

By: Eli James

Eli James — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:01:07 +0000

I’m afraid that I don’t have a smartphone with me at the moment, but here’s a shoutout to Novelr’s audience: what do you think of Adam’s mobile site? Would you implement one for your own?

@Adam: does the site redirect to the mobile version if it detects you’re on a phone platform? Or do you still have to manually visit it?

By: Adam Maxwell's Short Stories

Adam Maxwell's Short Stories — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:29:24 +0000

A while ago I did do a complete rebuild of my site (which has short stories on rather than novels but hopefully there will be some relevanve in here) so that all the extraneous stuff that you wouldn’t want if you were mobile was gone and you could just access the stories in a few different ways. I am pretty convinced that this would ring true for novels too – if you were on the bus you would want to get straight to the next chapter whereas if you were at your desk you might want author info, podcasts and all the additional content a full website should have.

Whilst I thought this would be a great idea the hits haven’t exactly measured up to the non mobile version. I think this is a great article on the subject and will be really interested to know what everyone thinks of the subject and indeed my foray into it if you can be bothered!

cheers

Adam
http://mobile.adammaxwell.com
and http://www.adammaxwell.com