Making a site mobile friendly

KL755

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Im looking for advice regarding making a mobile friendly version of my site. Are their plugins to do this, or is it something that can be done in dreamweaver etc?

I have had a search on Google but not really found much helpful....and advice gratefully recieved :) Thanks!
 
For your wedding site, as it's based on Wordpress, you could install the WP touch plugin, which automatically creates a mobile friendly version of your site (it's pretty awesome actually)...

In the case of the first one, it's a matter of building a mobile site and using a script to detect whether the user is browsing via a mobile, and if they are, redirecting them to the mobile version of your site.
 
KL755 said:
This is kinda my question, how do you actually go about building one? Ive just about got my head round building a conventional site, let alone a mobile one :lol:
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slightly lower res version of your main site basically.. no flash for apple devices..

many many many moons ago i used a javascript to detect a minimum screen res but that probably wouldnt work these days with high res mobile devices (ipad etc).

a quick google found this: http://webdesign.about.com/od/mobile/a/detect-mobile-devices.htm

doesnt say how up to date it is though.
 
Been a while since I've done any websites but I always found that well made sites in XHTML worked fine on mobile devices. Doing the layout with CSS just meant it fell back nicely if the browser couldn't render any particular bits due to screen size. Does mean using CSS rather than tables for layout, although some use of tables is still OK. Dreamweaver can probably do that these days.

Yours seems fairly flash heavy, I think you can place alternate HTML content in the embedded flash code that gets rendered on any device not supporting flash.
 
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