The .mobi directory

vcool · 10-23-2006, 11:01 PM

I have built a .mobi directory at dir.mobi and would like to hear some suggestions/improvement about the site. I have seen some really good comments in this forum and I know there some experts around. I would really appreciate any feedback.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/250334-the-mobi-directory-thread.html

I built this site with mobile user in mind. In place of using the dmoz.org directory structure with lots of categories and sub-categories, I limited those to maximum 10 and which are relevant to mobile users. Although I still have about 1000 categories to choose from. The main categories are Work, Learn, Play, Shop, Home, Money & World. I tried to make the directory very simple with just logo as image for faster download.

If anyone knows of good .mobi working sites ( not just domains), then please let me know or add URL at dir.mobi. I want to add good .mobi websites which will benefit mobile users. The listing is also free (till I change my mind!!!).

gamehouse · 10-23-2006, 11:32 PM

Very cool idea and good looking .mobi site. Did you have to use any database? or Script?

THanks,

GH

vcool · 10-23-2006, 11:38 PM

Thanks for you comments. I used PHP and MySQL.

texasgamer · 10-23-2006, 11:53 PM

Added my site (livefeeds.mobi) to your directory. Thanks

gamehouse · 10-24-2006, 12:03 AM

Did you check accessing your site on a mobile device?

Thanks

GH

Originally Posted by vcool

Thanks for you comments. I used PHP and MySQL.

vcool · 10-24-2006, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by gamehouse

Did you check accessing your site on a mobile device?

Thanks

GH

I have checked it on the mobile simulators for nokia and sony mobile devices but not on the device yet.

Thanks
Vcool

Originally Posted by texasgamer

Added my site (livefeeds.mobi) to your directory. Thanks

Great name and site. Thanks.

gamehouse · 10-24-2006, 12:12 AM

Great. I suppose if the site validates as per the standards, it must be accessible on mobile devices. I thought SQL might give a problem. If it does not, wonderful.

Originally Posted by vcool

I have checked it on the mobile simulators for nokia and sony mobile devices but not on the device yet.
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Thanks
Vcool

Great name and site. Thanks.

GoDesign · 10-24-2006, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by gamehouse

Great. I suppose if the site validates as per the standards, it must be accessible on mobile devices. I thought SQL might give a problem. If it does not, wonderful.

SQL & PHP shouldnt give any problems because its server-side.
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Nice domain name BTW

-db- · 10-24-2006, 07:13 AM

Excellent work. I love the domain, and the idea behind it. It's very fitting.

The categories seem almost 'too' deep though... but maybe it's just the shock of adjusting to the overall small size, and thinking of navigating with the small keys. Of course, that's going to be a issue to address with all mobi sites.

Btw, welcome to the community vcool.

mtvplayer · 10-24-2006, 07:15 AM

like it.

GoDesign · 10-24-2006, 07:31 AM

Just one suggestion, you might wan't to offer users of older mobile phones (like me) a WML version-link of your site as well as XHTML, their are ways of getting the phone version with PHP, then you could re-direct to the most appropriate version for users.
Also im not too sure if .php URL ext's conform to standard for the .mobi's requirements, i *think* you have to be using an XHTML/XML ext to conform. Their is a way around this by changing your MIME-TYPES on your server.

vcool · 10-24-2006, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by -db-

Excellent work. I love the domain, and the idea behind it. It's very fitting.

The categories seem almost 'too' deep though... but maybe it's just the shock of adjusting to the overall small size, and thinking of navigating with the small keys. Of course, that's going to be a issue to address with all mobi sites.

Btw, welcome to the community vcool.

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=250334
Thanks db. You are right, it's bit of a shock to adjust to small display size and we all will have to re-think the web design for mobile apps.

nametrekker · 10-24-2006, 08:09 AM

bravo --

you should include on the dir.mobi a site a "dir" of mobi developers, so we can pay people like you to help develop our own mobi regs --

best of luck!

vcool · 10-24-2006, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by GoDesign

Just one suggestion, you might wan't to offer users of older mobile phones (like me) a WML version-link of your site as well as XHTML, their are ways of getting the phone version with PHP, then you could re-direct to the most appropriate version for users.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=250334
Also im not too sure if .php URL ext's conform to standard for the .mobi's requirements, i *think* you have to be using an XHTML/XML ext to conform. Their is a way around this by changing your MIME-TYPES on your server.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try to make WML verions as well. Excellent suggestion.

As for .php ext, I could not see anything mentioned about this in the compliance guide. Only thing that was mentioned is the file type header should mention XHTML file type ( before <html> tags ),which I have done. If anyone knows more about this then please share your insight. If .php is not supported , then it would be difficult to do any server-side scripting. BTW, I checked my site with Nokia and Sony mobile simulator at mtld.mobi and it did not give me any error.

Originally Posted by nametrekker

bravo --

you should include on the dir.mobi a site a "dir" of mobi developers, so we can pay people like you to help develop our own mobi regs --

best of luck!

We are on roll here!. Another excellent suggestion. I will add the .mobi developer's section to dir.mobi.

Jo · 10-24-2006, 04:45 PM

Nice site! I add a few.

msfedxx · 10-24-2006, 05:02 PM

Yes, nice site

mobidick · 10-24-2006, 05:05 PM

nicely done - the name, the idea, and the work...

actions speak loudest. Look forward to populating your directory in the months ahead.

MCDomains · 10-24-2006, 05:06 PM

Great lil' site! That's the way to do .mobi, quick & simple.

newton · 10-24-2006, 05:49 PM

Excellent site and will be adding a few mobi's as they are created. Just waiting for dns to populate.

vcool · 10-24-2006, 11:23 PM

Thanks everyone! I see some very good .mobi sites developed already. Some of them like dailyjokes.mobi, I will include in showcase. I am personally checking each and every site using the mobile simulator at mtld.mobi before including in dir.mobi and I will not be including any parked domains.

vcool · 10-25-2006, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by tee

Cool directory.
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I added a link to you on my wireless Web blog on the links page.

Thanks you very much Tee for adding dir.mobi link on your website. I would really appreciate if everyone who has submitted their website to dir.mobi to linkback. It will help me a lot.

If anyone is interested, you can put dir.mobi search , dir.mobi logo or dir.mobi link on your website, go to Link page on dir.mobi. Although we do not have a lot of websites yet in dir.mobi, for the search to be usefully, but I believe in couple of months it would be very useful tool to put on your website.

newton · 10-25-2006, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by vcool

Thanks you very much Tee for adding dir.mobi link on your website. I would really appreciate if everyone who has submitted their website to dir.mobi to linkback. It will help me a lot.

If anyone is interested, you can put dir.mobi search , dir.mobi logo or dir.mobi link on your website, go to Link page on dir.mobi. Although we do not have a lot of websites yet in dir.mobi, for the search to be usefully, but I believe in couple of months it would be very useful tool to put on your website.

Added dir.mobi to one of the .mobi sites just submitted

RegFee · 10-25-2006, 04:18 PM

Excellent name, welcome to the forum!

vcool · 10-25-2006, 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by newton

Added dir.mobi to one of the .mobi sites just submitted

Newton,
You got some great .mobi domain names there! Are you planning to devleope all those?

BTW, Thanks for adding the link on you homepage. I have now added some more graphic buttons for link back on the Link page.

newton · 10-26-2006, 09:43 AM

Thanks vcool, they will all be developed in the near future. The standard pages will most likely be flash sites, once there is more of an idea of traffic and devices used to view the pages.

I adore your dir.mobi site and hope to see more sites up there, ideally with users being able to draw upon the links there to know what mobile sites are available, so they in turn can create their very own mobile sites from the huge list of mobile sites there.

10-23-2006, 11:01 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
vcool NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Jose,CA Posts: 469	The .mobi directory I have built a .mobi directory at dir.mobi and would like to hear some suggestions/improvement about the site. I have seen some really good comments in this forum and I know there some experts around. I would really appreciate any feedback. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/250334-the-mobi-directory-thread.html I built this site with mobile user in mind. In place of using the dmoz.org directory structure with lots of categories and sub-categories, I limited those to maximum 10 and which are relevant to mobile users. Although I still have about 1000 categories to choose from. The main categories are Work, Learn, Play, Shop, Home, Money & World. I tried to make the directory very simple with just logo as image for faster download. If anyone knows of good .mobi working sites ( not just domains), then please let me know or add URL at dir.mobi. I want to add good .mobi websites which will benefit mobile users. The listing is also free (till I change my mind!!!).

10-23-2006, 11:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
texasgamer Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas Posts: 2,373	Added my site (livefeeds.mobi) to your directory. Thanks __________________ Sara Palin

10-24-2006, 07:13 AM	#9 (permalink)
-db- NamePros Inc. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Under the bed. Posts: 5,609	Excellent work. I love the domain, and the idea behind it. It's very fitting. The categories seem almost 'too' deep though... but maybe it's just the shock of adjusting to the overall small size, and thinking of navigating with the small keys. Of course, that's going to be a issue to address with all mobi sites. Btw, welcome to the community vcool. __________________ I support Children: Wish.org \| MissingKids.com I support Animals: SPCA.org \| SPCA.com Jeff \| Armstrong \| Grrilla - First 3 inductees into NamePro's Hall-Of-Fame.

10-24-2006, 07:31 AM	#11 (permalink)
GoDesign NamePros Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 167	Just one suggestion, you might wan't to offer users of older mobile phones (like me) a WML version-link of your site as well as XHTML, their are ways of getting the phone version with PHP, then you could re-direct to the most appropriate version for users. Also im not too sure if .php URL ext's conform to standard for the .mobi's requirements, i think you have to be using an XHTML/XML ext to conform. Their is a way around this by changing your MIME-TYPES on your server. __________________ GoDesign.co.uk -> livemobile.mobi -> livegaming.mobi

10-24-2006, 05:02 PM	#16 (permalink)
msfedxx NamePros Regular Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: USA Posts: 444	Yes, nice site __________________ http://www.PCTatteltale.com http://www.hivetunes.com] http://www.HiveProxy.com http://www.TheHiveDesigns.comBeyonceKnowles.mobi4Sale

10-23-2006, 11:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
gamehouse Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,401	Very cool idea and good looking .mobi site. Did you have to use any database? or Script? THanks, GH

10-23-2006, 11:38 PM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
vcool NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Jose,CA Posts: 469	Thanks for you comments. I used PHP and MySQL.

10-24-2006, 07:15 AM	#10 (permalink)
mtvplayer NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 212	like it.

10-24-2006, 08:09 AM	#13 (permalink)
nametrekker NamePros Regular Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 263	bravo -- you should include on the dir.mobi a site a "dir" of mobi developers, so we can pay people like you to help develop our own mobi regs -- best of luck!

10-24-2006, 04:45 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jo Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,200	Nice site! I add a few.

10-24-2006, 05:05 PM	#17 (permalink)
mobidick NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 213	nicely done - the name, the idea, and the work... actions speak loudest. Look forward to populating your directory in the months ahead.

10-24-2006, 05:06 PM	#18 (permalink)
MCDomains DomainSeeking.com Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Boston Posts: 2,415 Follow @AdvoCareMatt	Great lil' site! That's the way to do .mobi, quick & simple. __________________ Erin Burnett CNN \| Free Images Royalty Free Be Your OWN Boss - AdvoCare Angie Harmon Pics

10-24-2006, 05:49 PM	#19 (permalink)
newton Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Everywhere Posts: 1,432	Excellent site and will be adding a few mobi's as they are created. Just waiting for dns to populate. __________________ The speed of light is faster than sound that's why some people appear bright until they open their mouths

10-24-2006, 11:23 PM	THREAD STARTER #20 (permalink)
vcool NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Jose,CA Posts: 469	Thanks everyone! I see some very good .mobi sites developed already. Some of them like dailyjokes.mobi, I will include in showcase. I am personally checking each and every site using the mobile simulator at mtld.mobi before including in dir.mobi and I will not be including any parked domains.

10-25-2006, 04:18 PM	#23 (permalink)
RegFee DNOA Certified Seller Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,666	Excellent name, welcome to the forum! __________________ Nombrex.com

10-26-2006, 09:43 AM	#25 (permalink)
newton Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Everywhere Posts: 1,432	Thanks vcool, they will all be developed in the near future. The standard pages will most likely be flash sites, once there is more of an idea of traffic and devices used to view the pages. I adore your dir.mobi site and hope to see more sites up there, ideally with users being able to draw upon the links there to know what mobile sites are available, so they in turn can create their very own mobile sites from the huge list of mobile sites there. __________________ The speed of light is faster than sound that's why some people appear bright until they open their mouths

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