Making Mobile Friendly Sites

Have you ever tried to open your blog in a mobile browser? You better not, first of all it looks as ugly as it gets, secondly it takes too much of time to load completely. There are so many applications available in the net to solve this scenario. Some allows you to make from scratch a new mobile site and the others allow you to create a mobile friendly version of your existing site. If you are interested in creating a fresh mobile site, TagTag will be one of the good options available. But if you are interested in creating a browser friendly version of your blog – the two best available options are Mofuse and WireNode. Both these services create mobile friendly version of your site from their RSS feeds.
A brief review of both these services is given below:

Mofuse has been launched in its beta version in September 2007 and since then has been the pioneer in creating mobile friendly version of your site. They offer so many advanced feature like custom domain, header image, Designing Logo, Comment Widget etc. It also gives you the opportunity to monetize from your mobile site by adding your Adsense or AdMob code. The revenue split for free users is of the 50/50 ratio, but if you can upgrade to Pro version you can keep the entire revenue. They do provide automatic redirect code through which you can redirect your user to your mobile site if they are visiting via a mobile browser. They also have a comment widget and option to add/create another independent page other than your RSS page. They have been very pro active with the options they offer to their users by adding new feature – the latest are iPhone settings and Click to Call features. Their only drawback as far as I am concerned is that they tend to put most of these features in the Pro version. They will allow you to use these feature and the next time you will find them included only in the pro version. But anyway, this is by far the best application available to make a browser friendly version of your blog.

WireNode has been founded by the Tomas Zeman and Tomas Randus and has their head office located in Prague, Czech Republic. Like Mofuse with WireNode it takes only two minutes to setup your mobile site. You can have a Title Image and put your own Image in WireNode. Like Mofuse you can create individual pages, it also provides three widget – a clock widget, Message/Comment widget and Message of the Day widget. Out of this the Message of the Widget is very innovative as it gives an essential platform to announce of recent developments. Another innovative feature included in WireNode is the option to add images from Google Image search. It also provides a set of seven themes to choose from. They lack the monetization options of Mofuse but should be able to provide an alternative for it soon.