How to make website mobile friendly
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Make your website mobile friendly become a very important issues to drive your new visitors from mobile user now and future. Since the mobile user is 4 times more greater than PC user and the trend show more and more people access into the internet searching information via mobile devices.
By having a website that will automatically detect if the user is coming from a PC or a mobile device. If the user is coming from pc it will show a standard website design. If the user is coming from mobile, it will display a mobile website in their mobile. You need to find a mobile website developer that are able to setting their server to detect which devices user are using to visit your website. It’s all depending on the source of the request the site will either send the website for PCs or the mobile website.
At this moment, I just found all google website that have this technology to conveniently for user to go to their site without typing mobile.google.com or m.google.com or any sub domain to access their website in mobile.
While I searching the information about mobile website technology, I’m will share with you some of my research and though in 2 different situation. First, I’m a mobile user and I want to view the website in mobile website. The second situation is I’m a mobile user, but I want to view the website in a standard or full website. I’ll discuss how to enable the users to specify a preference for one of the other versions of the site.
It can be make you satisfied with a quite simple solution by using an apache redirect in a .htaccess file.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*iPad.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ipad.yourdomain.com [R=301]
The issue with this approach is that users coming to your site using an iPad will never have the ability to see the other versions of your site.
If you're a mobile apps developer you will understand on all the coding here.