I would like to take a standard desktop site that isn't my own slashdot.org and transform it into a mobile friendly site. How can I do this using Moovweb?
There's a lot of documentation on the Moovweb site - the building a mobile site tutorials are probably the most useful for what you're asking.
If you need to get started from the very beginning (as in - you haven't even downloaded it), there's a getting started guide also.
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Hi. I am developing one application for iPhone. In which I have integrated twitter, facebook, Myspace. Using my app I can update status and image. In the same way I want to integrate Bebo social networking site.
I find Bebo's developer site http://developer.bebo.com/ here. But I did not found any API related to Objective C or iPhone related stuff. How can I do this integration?
It doesn't look like there's an existing API for bebo access on iPhone.
You'll have to think about rolling your own. The site you posted a link to seems to have useful info. Or there's some (hard on the eye) info here:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=6945769847
which control should i use to make my company's website to iphone look ...
so that when it open it iphone then it look a different that it look in normal browser...
actually i am an iphone developer and i have to give this answer to the web designer of my group...
There's also a great WordPress plugin called WPtouch which I've seen a lot of blogs use. That is, if most of your company's site is a WordPress blog...
Have a look at http://www.jqtouch.com/ or http://code.google.com/p/iui/ or one of the similar toolkits available for doing iPhone web applications.
The actual detection of an iPhone browser depends on your backend framework. A bit more information can be found in this question
My website is really very simple HTML based site. My site is located here: http://www.threesite.com
How can I convert this simple HTML site compatible with iPhone or Droid? Do I need to convert the same into PHP based site and then convert? Your help will be much appreciated.
5 Ways to Create or Convert into Mobile Phone Website.
The easiest way is to use Google's tool, because it converts your existing site automatically. I've tried it on your site and it looks nice.
If you want to tailor the site yourself, you have two options: Building an app or rewriting HTML. A site app makes your site highly customizable and professionally-looking, but it requires a lot of effort and separate development for each platform (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, ...), and. it requires your users to specifically download your app.
If you choose to convert the existing HTML to a mobile-friendly site, it will be (mostly) cross-platform, and you can follow the guidelines here.
This is very interesting question especially these days when mobile visibility has never been more important.
For more complex website I would use some online mobile site converter service, such as duda mobile or bmobilized.
These services will give you just mobile - 'm' version of a website, but with long bad urls, and unless you pay for responsive package, the site won't work on tablets.
Maybe the best solution is to use joomla or word press and pick some responsive template and build the website from scratch. Building one responsive site is better solution than having multiple instances for each device...
examples:
a) duda service
If you wander what duda can do for you, just as an example, check this site crazyscarygames.com and check out his 'm' counterpart "m.crazyscarygames" for mobile devices. this is just an example.
b) script
If you would go for full responsive site, this is an example of purity III template on this website monkeygamesworld.com ... m.monkeygamesworld.com
And remember, always do all redirects from htaccess.
There's a google tool that you can use in the end to verify how your site works on android
google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly
just enter url and hit 'analyze'
also make sure that your robots.txt is setup well, in order to allow google bot do its scan properly throughout necessary directory structure in order to access all resources.
ok, hope that helps
I am thinking about developing a fairly simple facebook application which i have modelled the database in access.
I have web space and mySQL databases available, but I was wondering if anyone could point me towards any guides for facebook development? I had a search a while back, but they all seemed rather out of date. Anyone know where I should start with this?
I don't want to really share exactly what my idea is, but its a rating system for a particular set of products.
I haven't done much PHP before, only edited my wordpress template, and I do know enough SQL I hope.
Use the following links to create and configure ur application on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/developers/
and the following links will help u to integrate with facebook platform i have an application on facebook developer platform and the following links helped me to integrate and use facebook API:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/C
http://devtacular.com/articles/bkonrad/how-to-use-the-facebook-developer-toolkit-20/
You might find some good resources to start with here : Good resources on Facebook programming
I would highly recommend you buy...
http://pragprog.com/titles/mmfacer/developing-facebook-platform-applications-with-rails
No need to go through a bunch of small tutorials when you can find out just about all you can do through this book. It seems to be lacking on building a facebook app with an iframe though.
I have made an iPhone friendly version of my site, that I want to direct my users to.
The big question now is how to direct my users to this site. There are a few alternatives:
Redirect the user based on the user agent, e.g. if the user agent sent by the browser contains "iPhone" or android or whatever.
If the user agent matches the above criteria, display a notice on the original site telling the user that an iPhone version is available.
Which one is the most user-friendly? Another dimension to consider is the SEO aspect. How do I show Google that my site is iPhone capable?
I recently found some relevant posts on the Google Webmaster Tools homepage:
Help Google index your mobile site
Running Desktop and mobile versions of your site
phidah above has some good links, but remember: always include a link to view the desktop version. nothing is more frustrating than a limited mobile version when the desktop works just fine on the iPhone. there are exceptions, of course - for example if your desktop is mostly flash :p
This strikes me as more of a user experience question than a programming design decision. I would build either solution depending on what makes sense for your site, and your users. If you do go the redirect route, and the content on both version of the site are the same, I wouldn't worry to much about google. If the content is different, I would make sure both sites are visible to googlebot.
Nearly every site that I visit that has a mobile/iPhone version that just redirects me automatically, and then at the bottom there is a link to go to the full version if I want.
For SEO I don't think this would hurt anything, since web crawlers aren't run on mobile devices.
Check out the links below.
web dev kit
and for css info on detection
css Info
it is some of the better info I have found, hope it helps.
Kirk