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Member	eric.rovtar-hudsonchapel - 3/4/2010 10:13:35 AM Mobile Site I'm wondering if there's an easy way to create a mobile interface to the CMS alongside the full interface. I'd like to avoid just using CSS to do this since it would still allow the mobile device to download the full data of the site. Does anyone have any ideas? -Eric

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kentico_radekm - 3/4/2010 10:49:40 AM

RE:Mobile Site

Hello.

As far as I know, the usual was is to use CSS stylesheets. Unfortunately, we do not have any documentation for this purpose, but there are plenty of examples on how to implement such web site using stylesheets on the internet:

http://mobiforge.com/book/appendix-a-creating-a-mobile-friendly-site-using-only-stylesheets
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Mobile.html

Mobile devices are nowadays pretty much like elementary computers, such iPhone is and they do not have problems to display ordinary web page, so I think this would not be so hard to implement using different stylesheet or with some minor code modification.

Best Regards,
Radek Macalik

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evgeny.petrov-revium.com - 2/2/2011 9:19:26 PM

RE:Mobile Site

Hi radekm,

If we set css aside, what options in Kentico do we have to create a mobile version of a website which let's suppose is already developed?

Is that:
1) a "mobile" version of every page in the content tree which can be created in CMSDesk or
2) a different website in CMSDesk with independent structure? Can you clarify please?

If that is a different website in CMSDesk would content editors need to duplicate content if they are to create a new page?


Kentico Support	kentico_radekm - 2/15/2011 6:54:45 AM RE:Mobile Site Hello. We already released version 5.5R2 with mobile sites support. We have an article dealing with how to develop a site for a mobile device. Could you please read it for more details? Thank you. Link: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/developing_sites_for_mobile_devices.htm Best Regards, Radek Macalik


Member	Darren - 2/22/2011 5:28:24 PM RE:Mobile Site So I have to duplicate all my content if I want to use the mobile option??!?

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kentico_radekm - 2/23/2011 9:05:21 AM

RE:Mobile Site

Hello.

It has two parts. First is recognition if the page has been accessed from a mobile device, or not. This is ensured by Mobile device redirection web part, as documentation states. This web part can be added to any page in any time.

However, second part is mobile section itself. Web part ensures that visitor from a mobile device will be redirected to this mobile section, however this mobile section should fulfils some conditions, to be viewable on mobile devices. First is simpler structure (web parts) than on a standard web page, second is proper Mobile stylesheet, as our documentation, I sent you link for, shows.

So, yes, in general (and in our example) mobile section can be a separate web site´s section with simpler structure and special stylesheet.

If you are asking if you need to duplicate your content - it depends on if your current content is designed for mobile devices or no. If no (structure+ style), you should create a special section for it. Details depends on your particular implementation, you can e.g. showing current data via repeater web parts, and so on.

Best Regards,
Radek Macalik


Member	dhanrajm-bitwiseglobal - 7/7/2011 2:27:30 AM RE:Mobile Site Hi Is there any document for the mobile deveopment for ASPX Template based website. Regards Dhanraj


Kentico Consulting	kentico_borisp - 7/16/2011 4:34:05 AM RE:Mobile Site Hello, As my colleague stated, regrettably there are no guidelines on developing a mobile site section. I would recommend you to go through the best practices prior developing such a section. Best regards, Boris Pocatko

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dhanrajm-bitwiseglobal - 7/21/2011 7:48:53 AM

RE:Mobile Site

Hi

Thanks for Reply,

I have developed the regular website for mobile version without using MobileWebpart of Kentico, as our client already have old version of website which is developed in Old version of Kentico, I have used the javascript user-agent to redirect to mobile device.

On the mobile website i have a link "regular website" when i click link it is opeing the Mobile Website and not Regular Website because of redirect code. Is there any script to handel it.

Anybody help is appreciated

Regards
Dhanraj

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kentico_mirekr - 8/2/2011 3:08:13 AM

RE:Mobile Site

Hi,

What you can do is to create link to your main web site with some querystring parameter in the URL and if there will be such querystring in the URL you will not execute your custom code which is redirecting back to mobile section of your web.

Second option would be to use cookies instead of query string parameter.

Best regards,
Miro Remias


Member	zhzubair.new-gmail - 4/15/2012 4:46:44 PM RE:Mobile Site I'm wondering if there's an easy way to create a mobile interface to the CMS alongside the full interface. I'd like to avoid just using CSS to do this since it would still allow the mobile device to download the full data of the site. iphone apps android apps Nokia

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kentico_borisp - 4/18/2012 2:06:41 AM

RE:Mobile Site

Hello,

It depends on what exactly you want to achieve. If you want to supply the whole site to the user, then you could use responsive web design techniques. If you want to display only a subset of the information on your site, then I would suggest to use the mobile redirection web part together with a custom mobile section on your site. This approach is already described in the previous posts.

Best regards,
Boris Pocatko