View Full Version : Motorhomes.mobi -- wow!
This is quite a well built-out site, although clearly what I'm seeing on my PC is not mobile formatted. Maybe someone with a Web-enable phone could check it out?
Anyway, great to see so many varied products being sold via .mobi!
nombre
10-20-2007, 11:27 PM
looks good via the opera simulator
http://www.operamini.com/demo/
This was up and running within days of mobi going live, i remember. Great site.
I seem to remember on simulator gets 1/5 though :dontknow:
There are 2 motorhomes.mobi sites, one for PC's and one for mobile devices - the http://www.motorhomes.mobi site uses device detection to deliver either the PC site or the mobile site, http://motorhomes.mobi however will only deliver the mobile site, so it can be viewed on PC's. The mobile site is now 5/5 at dev.mobi, and is also showcased by DotMobi as one of their showcase sites. :coo2l:
pilot
10-21-2007, 02:25 PM
TC welcome to mobility. Motorhomes.mobi looks great! Is that yours?
The hard graft getting ASP.NET to play ball with mobile devices was mine, but developed for a friend who owns the site, but this was our first technology prototype - we now have a number of new .mobi sites in development, which hopefully will be delivering real info to mobile phones, rather than just another "About Us" website.
pilot
10-21-2007, 03:31 PM
Looks great!
The hard graft getting ASP.NET to play ball with mobile devices was mine, but developed for a friend who owns the site, but this was our first technology prototype - we now have a number of new .mobi sites in development, which hopefully will be delivering real info to mobile phones, rather than just another "About Us" website.
Scandiman
10-21-2007, 04:33 PM
The hard graft getting ASP.NET to play ball with mobile devices was mine, but developed for a friend who owns the site, but this was our first technology prototype - we now have a number of new .mobi sites in development, which hopefully will be delivering real info to mobile phones, rather than just another "About Us" website.Welcome to Mobility -TC-, I look forward to seeing more of your sites in the future!
Yes, welcome TC. :coo2l:
Do you know what sort of Traffic the site is getting from Mobile devices.
Be interesting to know.
Very nice site btw
Well, here goes......
Currently we believe that the .mobi site is well ranked in Google, as .mobi's go ( http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_en-GBGB220GB220&q=site%3a%2emobi ) so we should be seeing lots of traffic ? Also if we use Google's .mobi search we are top for our generic search terms.
In fact, the majority of traffic is the search engines bots - they seem to love a light-weight Xhtml compliant site, so we are seeing quite a bit of PC traffic to the mobile site from Google natural search. Last week Google even decided to rank the mobile site higher in it's search results than the PC site - soon got the PC site back higher in the rankings though. We are currently seeing very little mobile device traffic, even though we also have a low level PPC campaign running, I guess not unexpected. We have plans to drive a lot more mobile traffic from the PC site, which coupled with the big drop in mobile Internet pricing in the UK, we hope will see a pick-up in mobile traffic. We now have a major exercise to educate our users (of which we now have a lot to the PC site), to use the mobile site. I think we will achieve this, more details when we have this working...
cheers TC :biggrin:
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GijsZePa
10-21-2007, 08:19 PM
The hard graft getting ASP.NET to play ball with mobile devices was mine, but developed for a friend who owns the site, but this was our first technology prototype - we now have a number of new .mobi sites in development, which hopefully will be delivering real info to mobile phones, rather than just another "About Us" website.
Hi TC...
Building a mobile site with asp.net myself. Unfortunately impossible to use the mobile forms...working a lot with repeaters and literals...
Do do you have some other tips ?
Martin
Been there..... in the end started again as a 'standard' ASP.NET website project and handcoded the .ascx's as XHTML - no mobile controls, even had to skip some of the standard asp.net controls such as the Image control, as it doesn't render XHTML compliant markup - but the html Image control does. Having done all this, we then switched over to using WURFL for improved device detection from our own lightweight device detection code (we auto size with every image based on it's screen resolution/colour depth), and I have this feeling that it may be possible to make mobile controls work now, but to be honest we found we need very precise control over the mark-up being emited to get 5/5 in the .mobi checker that I still not sure that mobile controls would work. So once we got the bugs in the new v2.0 Ready checker at dev.mobi bashed, we got a compliant site !
GijsZePa
10-21-2007, 09:40 PM
Been there..... in the end started again as a 'standard' ASP.NET website project and handcoded the .ascx's as XHTML - no mobile controls, even had to skip some of the standard asp.net controls such as the Image control, as it doesn't render XHTML compliant markup - but the html Image control does. Having done all this, we then switched over to using WURFL for improved device detection from our own lightweight device detection code (we auto size with every image based on it's screen resolution/colour depth), and I have this feeling that it may be possible to make mobile controls work now, but to be honest we found we need very precise control over the mark-up being emited to get 5/5 in the .mobi checker that I still not sure that mobile controls would work. So once we got the bugs in the new v2.0 Ready checker at dev.mobi bashed, we got a compliant site !
Sounds very familiair ;)
As I said. Skipped almost every control except repeater and literal. Using plain xhtml to get a 5/5 score at ready.mobi ...
Not working with WURFL yet, but I want to do the same concerning the images sizes. Very curious about your own lightweight device detection code. But understandable..you keep it to yourself :embarassed:
Martin
Hi TC thanks for all your input, great site.
Very curious about your own lightweight device detection code. But understandable..you keep it to yourself
Tried to keep it simple, basically if a device declares that it supports mobile markup in the HTTP-Accept headers we treat it as a mobile device. Unfortuantely then Vodafone decided that they knew more about the mobile web than us, and stripped all of HTTP-Accept headers at their proxy/gateway, so we also then added device detection, and used some sample code posted at dev.mobi (Although php based) to build up a basic device detection parser. At this point we only need to know if it is a device that accepts mobile markup (xml) or a PC browser which will not work with xml. We then use WURFL to detect the full device capabilities for images, telephone number links etc. in the mobile site.
(Vodafone have now started to pass us the HTTP-Accept headers as we are a .mobi, but amazing how a simple change on only one of three gateways used by Vodafone in the UK could cause us such big problems !!)
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