You are all aware of the great work that Yancy has done with Planet Lotus. I have publically thanked him for the traffic and the excellent site.
But now, I am not too happy with him.
See, it has to do with his mobile site. Fast and cool for the handheld crowd. A pain in my backside for me.
Sure, mobile.planetlotus.org looks great on my Palm. But you know what? When some poor, unsuspecting soul clicks through to this site, it looks like . . . well, let's just say that this site isn't optimized for a handheld. Up until now, I was fine with it the way that it is, as the stats weren't pushing me to do anything about it.
But Yancy made it easy for handhelds and difficult for me. I have to provide a better interface.
I think that I have to start working on some sort of acronym, like "CSS." And trust me, I ain't no CSS expert. Nor could I even be considered a beginner. Some person, much smarter than I, will probably tell me that if I upgraded to a more recent version of the Blogsphere template, all my problems will go away. Wouldn't that be cool? :-) But until that happens, I will wander over to see what book Duffbert recommends. And take a look at the Documentation for the latest version the Blogsphere template.
All because Yancy is driving traffic to this site from people using a handheld.
That's good, right?
Since I have your attention, how does your site look on a handheld?
Misery loves company. :-)
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Comment posted by Vitor Pereira01/11/2008 04:38:21 PM
Homepage: http://www.vitor-pereira.com
Try this link on your Palm.
http://mowser.com/web/www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf
There is also a little script you can include on your pages that will 'mobilize' your site using Mowser. I've meaning to try it out but haven't find the time to do it yet.
Comment posted by Gregg Eldred01/12/2008 08:29:55 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf
@Vitor: That is a nice link. Thanks for the suggestion. I, too, will head over to mowser and see about mobilizing this site.
Thanks!
Comment posted by Yancy Lent01/13/2008 09:54:05 PM
Homepage: http://www.planetlotus.org
@Vitor: Great link, I'll look into incorporating into mobile.PL
@Greg: my phone straight-up hangs on some sites to the point where i have to reset the battery... Great excuse to get a new phone :)
Comment posted by Gregg Eldred01/13/2008 10:34:55 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf
@Yancy: I hope that this site isn't one of them.
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