I’m iPhone Friendly!
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Mobile usage is accounting for more and more internet usage. I myself ‘surf on the move’ with my iPhone (I love my iPhone more than my dog)! One pet peeve though is the non mobile friendly pages. You spend way too long scroling back and forth and zooming in and out to get any enjoyment. However, I can’t very well bitch about the state of websites that don’t cater to the mobile market when mine doesn’t!
Until today!
I came across a pretty nifty plugin called WP Touch, which (in one click) makes your site iPhone and other mobile device friendly. There are a lot of plugins out there that do this, but most of them require you to do some element of designing of the “mobile theme” yourself and then arse around installing it in the relevant directories. This one is one click.
Essentially, when someone accesses Pixel Scoop now, it will detect whether they are on a mobile device and if they are, it will display the mobile version of the site. It’s less colourful, to say the least, and it’s a generic theme that they use for any site with the WP Touch plugin, but it’s much easier reading for mobile web browsers. Plus, if readers don’t like it, there’s an option to turn it off at the bottom!
Here’s how Pixel Scoop looks from a mobile:
Plain, indeed.... but so much easier!
No 'scroll, zoom, scroll, zoom,' required.
Clear image display...
And the option to turn off the mobile view for those who like scrolling and zooming!
If anyone else is interested in creating a clear, iPhone friendly version of their blogs, you can get the plugin from here. Sorry, non WordPress-ers – this only works with WordPress blogs!
