.mobi WAP 2.0 Development. How to Guide?

[anurag]

How to Develop a Mobi Site.

Hello

As all of us know that .mobi is not the same as other names.

Can some one help me how to develop the site or any software to develop site.


Thanks
Anurag

 

[Damion]

Thanks man, nice to see there is an option to monetize .mobi sites!

 

[newton]

Most welcome Damion, it was just a matter of time, and I am sure this is just the start

 

[Mr. Deleted]

I put them on my sites, but I then checked it on their own checker, and their own site did not work, but my site did, but when I checked it in the checker at mltd, it worked.

http://o2-external.waprunner.wap3.n...p://MUF.mobi&device=nokia_3650i&runmode=popup click on "great mobile sites"

CONNECTION ERROR:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Couldn\'t resolve host \'output_links.php\'

 

[Jo]

Godaddy uses Website Tonight free with your .mobi domain purchase. I found it limited in use and too much whitespace between header and footer. I contacted support and they said there is nothing they could do about that. It is however really easy to use and good for those who don't want to spend a lot of time figuring out how to develope on their own.

 

[Traveler]

mWare

Hmmm... are you trying to brand mware? Nice one, hope you can and that you do well with mware.mobi!

 

[Jo]

Does anyone know how to add a message board, chat or a tagboard to a mobi site? Has anyone tried?

 

[Ben42]

Hmmm... are you trying to brand mware? Nice one, hope you can and that you do well with mware.mobi!

Feel free to use it! Please!

It's all mWare! :hehe:

Does anyone know how to add a message board, chat or a tagboard to a mobi site? Has anyone tried?

I haven't seen any mWare that does that, but it would be cool to have easily postable message boards on my phone.

 

[newton]

You should be able to push xml/rss feeds straight to a mobile, there are 3rd party utils as well for the end user like http://www.mobilerss.net/ and many others which allow you to sync with your mobile the feeds you require. Since Vbulletin has a pda version then it is possible to read these forums directly if you know the url and they publish the pda/archive versions. It should be something like http://www.domain.com/archive/index.php/

 

[SledDog]

Here is a great tutorial if anybody is interested. Plenty of code examples are given in the WML tutorial to help you understand the concepts and techniques.

I found some templates that helped me get some simple pages up quickly.

http://www.developershome.com/wap/wml/

 

[Jo]

You should be able to push xml/rss feeds straight to a mobile, there are 3rd party utils as well for the end user like http://www.mobilerss.net/ and many others which allow you to sync with your mobile the feeds you require. Since Vbulletin has a pda version then it is possible to read these forums directly if you know the url and they publish the pda/archive versions. It should be something like http://www.domain.com/archive/index.php/

That's neat. But how do you go about putting the RSS feeds onto a site? I have no idea if someone could share, I have a site that would be good with this.

 

[newton]

That's neat. But how do you go about putting the RSS feeds onto a site? I have no idea if someone could share, I have a site that would be good with this.

If it is a forum like vbulletin, then its just a matter of flicking a switch in the admin to turn on the use of pda's able to read the board.

Wordpress and similar blog software can have them going in and going out via a program called 'magpie rss' which you install on the server along with the blog. There are a couple of others which make rss feeds into posts on the main page as well.

If you want a site that has no rss functionality then you can create them manually although they won't change content unless you physically update the feed, which isn't too much work since its all text. Something along these lines http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/10790

 

[Jo]

If it is a forum like vbulletin, then its just a matter of flicking a switch in the admin to turn on the use of pda's able to read the board.

Wordpress and similar blog software can have them going in and going out via a program called 'magpie rss' which you install on the server along with the blog. There are a couple of others which make rss feeds into posts on the main page as well.

If you want a site that has no rss functionality then you can create them manually although they won't change content unless you physically update the feed, which isn't too much work since its all text. Something along these lines http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/10790

Ok thanks very much for your reply, I read some of that page and it's a bit too much for my foggy brain to compute right now. Hopefully later I'll understand it better.

 

[newton]

Most welcome and if you get stuck give me a shout. The tags are just like html where there is an open and close tag for each line. Good luck

 

[GoDesign]

As for the how games can be XHTML served up question, they can be served up easily, and streamed with Java.Java would also be a good alternative to using RSS feeds for a chat room/live board.
GD.

 

[namewaiter]

apologies if this has benn posted...

this scores your developed .mobi ...

http://mr.dev.mobi/

 

[Mr. Deleted]

http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php?emulator=sonyK750&webaddress=www.developing.mobi/

the template looks nice in a web browser, but in a cell phone it does not show all that stuff.

 

[iNod]

Development Resources Links

Below are some important .mobi links.

Development Resources

• http://www.2wap.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1800 [LEARN XHTML]
• http://www.2wap.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1400 [SCRIPT SNIPETS]
• http://www.2wap.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=348 [WML TUTORIAL]
• http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/WAP_and_WML/index.html [MOBILE SCRIPTS]
• http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ [WURFL MOBILE HEADER CLASS]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbrowser [MOBILE BROWSERS]
• http://dev.mobi/ [MOBI DEVELOPMENT SITE]
• http://www.forum.nokia.com/ [NOKIA'S MOBILE RESOURCES]
• http://mr.dev.mobi/ [MOBI SITE REPORT]
• http://myrank.mobi

News

• http://www.mobiletechnews.com/
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/mobile/
• http://dotmobi.typepad.com/
• http://www.dotmobiz.com/

.MOBI Parking

• http://sedo.com

.MOBI DIRECTORIES

• http://www.developedmobis.com
• http://dir.mobi
• http://www.developedmobis.com/
• http://showcase.mtld.mobi/siteform/
• http://Top-10.mobi
• http://WapDir.mobi
• http://greatsites.mobi/
• http://homedirectory.mobi/
• http://topmobilesites.wapnews.mobi/

- Steve

 

[The Engineer]

I cannot view vesper.mobi in IE7 but I can in Firefox. However I can view other mobi sites in IE7. I have this in my .htaccess file..........

AddType text/html .xhtml
DirectoryIndex index.xhtml

Looking for some help

Thanks in advance

 

[tobto]

mobi.templates

thx for info, guys! just try to use wurfl with my blog.

 

[ezinaz]

I'm getting an error on the Mobi Emulator when pointing it at a simple ASP.NET page:

HTTP-specified character encoding caused WML parse failure: utf-8: http://mobster.mobi/hello.aspx

Link to the emulator: http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator....address=mobster.mobi/hello.aspx&Submit=Update

Here is the code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>XHTML MP Tutorial</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Hello world.</p>
</body>
</html>


Any ideas of how to fix this?

Thanks in advance...