At the request of the OP on a related thread, I am starting this one re: drupal & .mobi.
I have been working with drupal for pc sites since early last year & started working with it for mobile sites. As mentioned on the other thread there is a mobile template available for 4.7 which can be easily edited to spice it up a bit if you have a little html/css ability.
http://drupal.org/project/mobile
Another theme that can easily be modified to work would be newsportal:
http://drupal.org/project/newsportal (no tables)
IMO, the largest opportunity is to use wurfl as mtld.mobi does to redirect based on device. There was no existing drupal module to do this so I had a programmer build a drupal module to switch themes or redirect based on device. Unfortunately, it doesn't work consistently yet & had to go on "hold" due to other projects which have a fixed due date. It just seems a shame to spend time & money developing & branding a "mobile" site without also being able to dynamically serve content formatted for a larger screen such as a laptop or upc. Traffic is traffic.
When the module is done, I will likely post a link for those that wish to try it out. It is doubtful that I will post it to drupal.org because I don't have the time resources to become it's maintainer.
Regardless, the topic of which cms is a fit for .mobi development is too important to let go.
There is also a wordpress plugin which does something similar (using wurfl) - but have not tested it & have no idea if it passes validation.
Eric
I have been working with drupal for pc sites since early last year & started working with it for mobile sites. As mentioned on the other thread there is a mobile template available for 4.7 which can be easily edited to spice it up a bit if you have a little html/css ability.
http://drupal.org/project/mobile
Another theme that can easily be modified to work would be newsportal:
http://drupal.org/project/newsportal (no tables)
IMO, the largest opportunity is to use wurfl as mtld.mobi does to redirect based on device. There was no existing drupal module to do this so I had a programmer build a drupal module to switch themes or redirect based on device. Unfortunately, it doesn't work consistently yet & had to go on "hold" due to other projects which have a fixed due date. It just seems a shame to spend time & money developing & branding a "mobile" site without also being able to dynamically serve content formatted for a larger screen such as a laptop or upc. Traffic is traffic.
When the module is done, I will likely post a link for those that wish to try it out. It is doubtful that I will post it to drupal.org because I don't have the time resources to become it's maintainer.
Regardless, the topic of which cms is a fit for .mobi development is too important to let go.
There is also a wordpress plugin which does something similar (using wurfl) - but have not tested it & have no idea if it passes validation.
Eric
