Make your website friendly for cellphones
Posted by dvanarsd on July 7, 2008
MakeUseOf recommends Google Mobilizer for adapting any website for use on a cellphone.
Google Mobilizer will take “any website and make it viewable on your mobile phone or PDA. Simply go to Google Mobilizer and enter the website URL, indicate whether you want images on/off, and click ‘GO’. Mobilizer will present you with a neat, add-free and stripped down version of the website. You also get a navigation menu to easily browse through website’s pages.”
Note: this is a very brief page with a place to enter the URL, and a checkbox if there are no images. This does not actually change the website; it just reformats a copy of it and makes it available. Handy if you need to see something on a page intended for a full screen view only, and checking the HTML may give you some ideas on how to create a mobile-friendly version of your own website.
djteazer said
Great article, very helpful, thank you. However, I do wish to make all my websites compatible with Cellphones and PDA’s and whatever is to come. What I really want to know is, how to activate the sounds from the website over the phone. For instance, I run Internet Radio. I would like to listen to my stations over my cellphones, while I’m out and about. How do I do this? I know I can download music to listen over my cellphone, or sounds for my ringers, etc; But I really want to be able to tune in to my Electronic station and Rock Station:
http://www.radio-tzer.net
http://www.electro-tzer.net
Now both have buttons that direct you to open up either:
Winamp, Real Media, Windows Media, ITunes players but what does a Cellphone use?
Any help would be just grand, Thank you.
DJTEAZER
http://www.teazerstunage.net
Sorry, but that’s away and above my so-called expertise. Any cell phone help from anyone else can be sent directly to DJTEAZER.
Kathy McDonough said
I’m a little confused with google moblizer is this to be used only by the individual to turn his own cell phone into mobile formatted web sites or can I change my websites using moblizer and everyone that goes to our site will see the new format?
RESPONSE: this takes the website (you enter the address URL) and converts it so it can display on your cell phone. If you are surfing on your cellphone and the website is too complex to display easily, this can simplify it so you can read it on the little cellphone display.
Kathy said
Is there a way that we can convert our websites to a moible friendly format so anyone could easliy read our sites, instead of doing it by each individual?
thanks,
Kathy
dvanarsd said
Response: Sorry, I don’t know of a free site for doing them all at once.