Mobile website version

Question

User-345079421 posted

Dear All,

I have developed an ASP.NET portal, and it's working perfectly.

now, they need to publish a mobile version website, that will be accessible, when the client enter from mobile browser.

What i have to start with, what design specs i need to take in consideration, like width and style issues......

For now, i have collected all section the management needs to be in the mobile version, and all is text based with images (news section, etc...)

Please advise..

Moayyad Faris

Answer 1

User1992938117 posted

Check some useful links:

http://www.asp.net/mobile/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b73x06dt%28VS.80%29.aspx

http://www.w3schools.com/dotnetmobile/default.asp

http://www.asp.net/community/control-gallery/browse.aspx?category=48

Answer 2

User1943143334 posted

Hi,

General asp.net website renders perfectly in all Mobile browsers[HTML Capable]. 

Check the following link for more details,

http://roopeshreddy.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mobile-development-in-asp-net/ 

Answer 3

User1135281112 posted

Hi,

No need to create seperate website. You can add new mobile optimized pages to the existing website. Important here is detect whether request to the website is coming from mobile than redirect user automatically to mobile optimized landing page rather than standard website. In this way you can have same domain shared for both standard and mobile version.

Here it is very important you dectect mobile request. 

Please take a look at http://51degrees.codeplex.com/. It is an ASP.NET open source module  which detects mobile devices and provides auto redirection to mobile optimized pages when request is coming from mobile device. It makes use of WURFL mobile device database. For redirection there is no need to modify existing ASP.NET web application pages.