ed
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Seems that one of my sites is getting a lot of mobile traffic. I want to be able to cater for them better so I'm going to design a mobile site when I upgrade the CMS this site is running.
Is there such thing as an emulator which I can use to design the template on my PC and generally test the site?
[Edited on 14-05-2010 by ed]
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AndyKent
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User-agent switching plug in for Firefox maybe?
I searched a while ago for an iphone safari emulator but most just take the full-size page and display it at iphone resolution - ended up just grabbing an ipod touch instead and doing it real-life.
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Steve
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youd be better off streamlining the sites bandwidth rather then design, most smartphone browsers can display most webpages correctly these days
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Butler
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Might be one on mobify.me
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
youd be better off streamlining the sites bandwidth rather then design, most smartphone browsers can display most webpages correctly these days
What on earth are you blabbering on about now?
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Steve
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my point is you dont really need to create specialised templates for mobiles any more as most smartphones handle and display webpages fine, i would just concentrate on streamlining the bandwidth and maybe for button links think about the sizing to make it easier for users of touch screen phones.
If you want to create something seperate just create a normal webpage based around a resolution of 360 x 640 min
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jamied
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what site is it out of interest?
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
my point is you dont really need to create specialised templates for mobiles any more as most smartphones handle and display webpages fine, i would just concentrate on streamlining the bandwidth and maybe for button links think about the sizing to make it easier for users of touch screen phones.
If you want to create something seperate just create a normal webpage based around a resolution of 360 x 640 min
You're still chatting shit. If you don't need a specific template for mobile platforms then why do so may sites include that functionality? What on earth is streamlining bandwidth? You're making phrases up there.
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by jamied
what site is it out of interest?
http://www.windmill-farm.co.uk/
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
my point is you dont really need to create specialised templates for mobiles any more as most smartphones handle and display webpages fine, i would just concentrate on streamlining the bandwidth and maybe for button links think about the sizing to make it easier for users of touch screen phones.
If you want to create something seperate just create a normal webpage based around a resolution of 360 x 640 min
You're still chatting shit. If you don't need a specific template for mobile platforms then why do so may sites include that functionality? What on earth is streamlining bandwidth? You're making phrases up there.
i dont know why you are getting so angry about this im trying to provide you help here.
im not saying dont design a template that is more phone friendly, but that you dont need an emulator to do so, just design an ordinary template in a 360 x 640 frame and you wont go wrong, just make the buttons touch screen friendly.
if your clever enough about your main website design though you wont even need to create a seperate mobile phone size template, as like i said previous most modern phones display ordinary webpages fine these days.
the bandwidth was more a common sense thing, in that try to minimise image sizes and content as phone tend to operate over lower bandwidth so youl want it loading quickly.
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ed
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Because all I'm asking for is if anyone knows of the existence of a piece of software that can emulate a mobile browser. Not your opinion of design.
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
quote:
Originally posted by jamied
what site is it out of interest?
http://www.windmill-farm.co.uk/
Can you stop the background image loading on every page, takes a second or so and it's really annoying going green then the image loading.
I think most of the sdk's emulate the browsers.
[Edited on 15-05-2010 by John]
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ed
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I'm trying to figure out a better way of doing that background thing. I want to scrap it but the 'clients' want to keep it.
Will have a look and see what the SDK's provide. We only have iPhone and Blackberry users coming on really so that should simplify the optimization...
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John
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The background looks quite good, it's just because it loads seperately on every page.
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Nismo
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Blackberry do a good emulator, its on there website.
Iwrote a script that for users on a iPhone they go to a iphone version, then for users of all other mobiles they go to a generic pda version, i did this by detecting the browser agent.
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ed
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I've got a PHP Class that does browser detection, seems to work but it doesn't do anything at the moment.
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ed
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If anyone is interested. It appears that Adobe Device Central is the thing to use...
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