Sunday, March 28, 2010

How To Make A Mobile Friendly Version of Blogspot Blogs

after making a mobile friendly version of my blog I tried on blogspot but found nothing on the web. there were some services who could transform the posts into an output for mobile devices like feedm8.com or using the google reader but nothing would automatically detect either its a mobile device or not.
mobify seemed to do the trick but there free service would only make the first page mobile friendly and would take you to the actual page. for the whole site you need to buy the subscription which wasnt what I hoped for. also a big draw back was that you were then using there URL.
a few services would let you use your very own m.yoursite.com URL but they were all with if you have access to the backend or server side glitch.
so what I did was I used mobify mobile detection script and redirected it to a google reader page view. it worked.

but then I found something. google reader was awesome but was eliminating the posts from the views as you view them. mean you possible cant view an already view post until you clear the cache. for me that was a no no.




































Now I tried to rather using google reader how about simply just accessing the feed? I mean that sure would be faster than the actuall site and should be faster to load and lower on size.


I am not sure about others but I would definately redirect to my feed rather full site as its faster to load and ppls can read my contents rather not at all. and this should work until google unviels all the gadgets its been preparing for blogspot.
special thanks to shoaib safdar for letting me experiment on his blog. his mobile friednly version can be viewed at http://www.feedm8.com/pensive

Saturday, March 27, 2010