You website or blog design may be perfectly optimized for the desktop screen but there are lot of people out there who frequently check your website or blog for new content using their mobile phones. The mobile visitors are not interested in the side bars, navigation areas and other design elements - all they want to see is a simple listing of your website or blog posts in reverse chronological order.
If they like the post they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phones. You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are simple ways to do it.
Your blog content won't just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.
1. Google Reader- the Ten Second Solution
Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/CLbhp
2. Create a free account at mofuse.com and they'll give a personal mobile website with a .mobli address-some like http://dtcrunch.mofuse.mobi/.
If you have self-hosted blog like on wordpress or blogger custom domain, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a sub domain (e.g.m.dtcrunch.com)- it is hort and users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.
WordPress users a lucky as there's a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the website to the visitor.
If they like the post they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phones. You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are simple ways to do it.
Your blog content won't just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.
1. Google Reader- the Ten Second Solution
Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]
http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/CLbhp
2. Create a free account at mofuse.com and they'll give a personal mobile website with a .mobli address-some like http://dtcrunch.mofuse.mobi/.
If you have self-hosted blog like on wordpress or blogger custom domain, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a sub domain (e.g.m.dtcrunch.com)- it is hort and users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.
WordPress users a lucky as there's a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the website to the visitor.