{"id":2860,"date":"2012-06-20T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2012-06-16T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T14:02:39","slug":"mobile-website-redirection-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/06\/20\/mobile-website-redirection-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Website Redirection Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently have been testing out mobile website design. Although there are some great free tools out there that automatically make a mobile website for you, I simply did not want THAT much content on my mobile site. I wanted a streamlined small interface with just my key services and phone links. PLUS I wanted the website files to reside on MY server, not over at Bing Local or over at Dudamobile.com.<\/p>\n

I found a template at Dreamweaver to help me used JQuery to create a mobile website. You can check out the video and grab the files here.<\/a>\u00a0I was able to pretty easily customize the site and CSS, but really ran into a problem getting the site to show for mobile users.<\/p>\n

Typically a “sniffing” script will be used to deliver content for mobile phones, but the scripts I found simply did not work. My Android smartphone still saw my desktop website. I found that the CSS declaration that identifies screen width and then redirects the used did not work for me, nor did several other php scripts. I ended up using a .htaccess redirect.<\/p>\n

This is the code I used in the .htaccess file:<\/p>\n

# mobile site redirection
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(.*).mccordweb.com\/.*$ [NC]
\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/mobile\/.*$
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “android|blackberry|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile” [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/mobile\/ [L,R=302]<\/p>\n

This worked for me. You can check out my mobile site at http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/mobile\/<\/a>\u00a0but you’ll only see if on your smartphone, don’t got there with your browser. Mine is still a work in progress, but something that I am testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently have been testing out mobile website design. Although there are some great free tools out there that automatically make a mobile website for you, I simply did not want THAT much content on my mobile site. I wanted a streamlined small interface with just my key services and phone links. PLUS I wanted the website files to reside on MY server, not over at Bing Local or over at Dudamobile.com. I found a template at Dreamweaver to help me used JQuery to create a mobile website. You can check out the video and grab the files here.\u00a0I was able to pretty easily customize the site and CSS, but really ran into a problem getting the site to show for mobile users. Typically a “sniffing” script will be used to deliver content for mobile phones, but the scripts I found simply did not work. My Android smartphone still saw my desktop website. I found that the CSS declaration that identifies screen width and then redirects the used did not work for me, nor did several other php scripts. I ended up using a .htaccess redirect. This is the code I used in the .htaccess file: # mobile site redirection RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/(.*).mccordweb.com\/.*$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/mobile\/.*$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “android|blackberry|iphone|ipod|iemobile|opera mobile|palmos|webos|googlebot-mobile” [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ \/mobile\/ [L,R=302] This worked for me. You can check out my mobile site at http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/mobile\/\u00a0but you’ll only see if on your smartphone, don’t got there with your browser. Mine is still a work in progress, but something that I am testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design","tag-website-design"],"yoast_head":"\nMobile Website Redirection Tactics | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2012\/06\/20\/mobile-website-redirection-tactics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mobile Website Redirection Tactics | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I recently have been testing out mobile website design. 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