Making you website view on a mobile?

[realm]

Hi,

I have just had a question passed to me regarding viewing sites on a mobile and how easy would it be to turn a site into a mobile friendly website. Has anybody done this before and how easy is it to do?

Cheers,
Adam

[ajbrun]

I don't know how to do it myself, but this might be of interest to you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5379170.stm
http://www.dotmobi.org/

[abeacock]

There are a few ways to do this, one is to write your website so that it conforms to the XHTML standards - this should work for the higher end phones that have normal web browsers on them.

Another way is to write a new site in WML (Wireless Markup Language) which is specific for the mobile internet.

Lots of information regarding the mobile web can be found at http://forum.nokia.com

[ikonia]

what ever happened to wap - it died its death totally.

[abeacock]

It's still going strong and is used in quite a number of applications/sites, it's just not heavily (mis-) advertised anymore...

[ikonia]

really I had no idea it was still going strong.

Could you suggest some main stream sites that a still going and perhaps popular. I'd love to investigate.

[abeacock]

Not all of these are WAP but are mobile...

BBC Mobile - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/web/how2get.shtml
Google Mobile - http://www.google.co.uk/mobile/
Yahoo Mobile - http://mobile.yahoo.com/

Along with pretty much any kind of mobile marketing campaign.

[Funkstar]

There is also a Java version of Opera that will work on just about everything. It actually loads your page on the opera servers and then re-works it to send to opera on the device, stripping out a lot of things i things aren't needed. I've only used it to have a look at my music library in SlimServer running on a NAS box with a reduced skin for handhelds, but it does look pretty good

[TheAnimus]

its worth noting that people such as google have a "mobile web" initive, that is parse oridenry websites, and re-format them in an i know best manner so that they are useable on mobile phone screens. Your site might already be perfectly useable by one of these services