HTML - Mobile Website

Hey guys,
If I'm posting in wrong section I apologize

I have a small problem what I need help with. I use a free service for redirecting people to my mobile site, but there service is down for last 6 days or something got wrong. Anyway I decided to use .htaccess rewrite to redirect them to mobile site.

The problem I have is that I cant really find how to do it efficiently and what I need because I have two different mobile sites.

here it goes:

My site example.com

First mobile site is example.com/index.php?template=3
(this one is mainly for blackberry and all rest mobile devices, and I like this one to load in opera mini also if possible)

Second mobile site is example.com/index.php?template=5
(that one is specifically for iPhone and android phones)


I am really don't know how to do it please!

Thank you.

Hi all, I thought you might find this report of interest... It is released by www.handsetdetection.com every month and basically gives an insight into mobile web usage and in particular, which are the preferred handsets for consumers to surf the mobile web, by Country.

If you are looking to better understand the growing mobile web sector, and the implications that this has on web marketing, design and development, the data is quite useful.

You can check it out here http://bit.ly/RawReports

Cheers

David

Hello. I am not sure if this is the correct place for this question. Please direct me if not. I am trying to set a webpage to redirect and display a different page if the first page is accessed from a mobile device (phone). Does anyone know how I can achieve this? I just need to know how to determine what it is viewed on. The redirect part I know already.

Thanks so much for all help!

Hi
I'm a bit of a newbie to any kind of HTML codes
Ive made a Test website so I can try out this piece of software that helps to create mobile web sites using HTML
Here's the Website : http://82.45.130.37/atozcouriers/ftp...001/index.html
Heres the HTML : http://www.2shared.com/document/XdlY...html?(Password :21)
I am using notepad to edit as any web editor messes up the viewing of the website in a Mobile Browser
The mobile Browser is Safari on iPad,iPhone or iPod touch
My problem only happens on one page , the homepage.
It aligns the main body to the right a bit and adds a line
I've experimented a bit but as I'm a newbie I'd don't know what to do.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks keirjohnharry

Hi everyone,

What is the code that i will have to enter to my website so mobile phones will be able to access it?

Hi there I'm new to this site but think I'll be sticking around for the wealth of information here.
So...I recently designed a website for a friend working off a nice little template to save time. Everything looks great and operates exactly how they requested on a desktop browser. However, the images become vertically stretched when viewing on a mobile device pretty severely. I'm confused because it's only the photos, other graphics (also jpegs) do not become distorted. Is it because I used width="x%" and height="x%" in the image tags

www.rideums.com is the website if you'd like to take a look at the source. Thanks guys for helping out.

Hi guys

I'm thinking of making a mobile friendly version of my karaoke show site. Mainly I'd like to offer a mobile friendly version of my songlist.

I was wondering what the main differences are between a mobile site like this:

https://www2.my.commbank.com.au/mobile/i/default.aspx

And the app version of the above banking site?

I don't have a smart phone yet, so can't check myself, but will be getting one soon to aid in the site development.

Does anyone know of a good tut on making mobile sites that fit the screen of a mobile?

Cheers

Shaun

Hello. Happy to be a new member. Beautiful forum.

I'm trying to play an swf unless the OS is unable (eg iphone, ipod, ipad) in which case I'd want a mp4 to play. I thought I had it working with this:

Code:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="366" height="275" id="Project1" align="middle">
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
  <param name="movie" value="video/Project1.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#d6dbef" />
    <embed src="video/Project1.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#d6dbef" width="366" height="275" name="Project1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
      <video width="366" height="275">
        <source src="video/Project1.swf" type="video/swf">
        <source src="video/Project1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
      </video>
    </embed>
<PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="true" >
</object>

which plays the swf fine on my pcs and the mp4 fine on my Iphone, but the fella I'm doing this for insists it is not working on his ipad which is really the reason I'm adding the mp4s in the first place.

Here is the code implemented:

http://propertysolutionskc.com/construction.html

and here again w/o javascript:

http://propertysolutionskc.com/listing017.html

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Hi peeps
So I finally sorted out my website. Tested it on the main browsers and everything was okay.
I uploaded it and then went to show a friend on my Iphone and waddya know, it doesn't display properly.
For some reason the background image tiles 4 times. And this goes for Iphone, Ipad, and Ipod.
There are parts of the site that use flash so It's not optimised for Iwhatevers anyway, but I'd definately like to sort out this "first impression" problem.

The site is an adult site (Don't worry there is nothing more than sexy images to be seen. no genitalia or anything). It's www.xturnmeonx.com

Any ideas peeps.

I need to make my site suitable for mobile browsers (small resolution, etc.) and looked at this page which gives tips on how to do it.

It seems like a nightmare! I think it would be much simpler just to create a special version of the site and redirect people to it when they go to the main page.

Is redirecting considered a bad idea? And if so, why?

Hi All,

I was hoping for some help in finding some Beta participants out there who would be interested in trying out our new service. We have just launched in Beta mode. (its free to use). There will also be a free version after the official launch.

The first step is to browse your way over to: http://www.handsetdetection.com/

We hope that this will represent one of the first steps in solving the mobile and web crossover issues which website owners and developers face when people view the site from any device other than a normal computer (I-phone / Balckberry / PDA).

Once connected to our service, when someone visits your site, a live request is sent to us, and we return a result back to you on a live basis with details of the device, screen size, GEOIP, make, model and many other fields of information.

From that point, you can do one of two things:

1. Depending on the result returned, you can then display an appropriate view for the consumer i.e. A website that will fit their device's screen size and UI which is controlled by the way in which they are browsing (i-phones suit touch screen menus, N95's suit joystick controls and so on...)

2. If option 1 is too much of a first leap, after you add the code into your website, you can just login to our online reporting system and view your traffic results based on device make, model, country, city etc... This would be a great first step in understanding whether you are getting traffic to your site from non traditional browsing devices.

As I mentioned, we are in Beta stage, so we would value your feedback on this. Also, if you know of anyone else who may be interested in participating in this Beta stage, I would be grateful if you could pass this message on...

Regards,

David Manjra
skype: dmanjra

Hi.

Is there any code out there that will detect whether a visitor to a website is using a mobilephone? If they are, I want the code to automatically send them to my mobile version of my site. I'm guessing it maybe somekind of resolution detection???

The BBC website can do this. Does anybody know how?

Leroy

When I create a test page using DIV and set it to 480 px wide, my iPod Touch does not have it initially filling the screen; I have to double tap it to have it fill the screen.

What step am I missing?

Many thanks...

Todd

I need to create an HTML page for mobile devices that displays videos. Ideally, it needs to work with older phone browsers too, so I was hoping someone could help me with the following questions:

1. What doctype should I use (XHTML Basic 1.1?)?
2. What's the best way to embed the video in the HTML?
3. If the video can't be embedded, is it good practice to (also?) provide a link so the user can download the video to show in a separate video player application?
4. What video media type(s) are best supported in mobile devices?

NB - I will be using Java to create the HTML, so if there's a need to get any request headers, etc. then I could do that in order to provide the best output according to the device.

Thanks in advance,
James

Hi there,

I recently made a "mobile" version of my business' website, and am using some javascript to redirect screen sizes smaller than 480px. The problem is, the mobile page I designed looks tiny on iPhones, even though in a regular browser it looks very similar to other site's mobile pages (which look great on the iPhone.)

If someone could give me some advice as to why this is happening, I would appreciate it very much.

I found a site that looks and acts just like how I want mine to: http://mobile.walmart.com/m/home

And here is mine: http://www.sandiegopcsupport.com/mobile/

Thanks