Hey Guys,
Looks like i joined here at the right time. With the new redesign of "mobiforge" and all. Gotta say it really looks awesome.

Well, my name is Chris and i live in South Africa. Luckily we have millions of people who use their phones everyday for the internet because of a chat program called mxit so our market is increasing really rapidly.

Anyways, i look forward to the "explosion" of the mobile web which seems to be inevitable!

Hi,

My name is Martin en working on .mobi sites since a year or so...
Always developing in ASP.NET and that is not the easiest language to follow the .mobi guidelines.

Owner of about 100 .mobi names which will be sold or developed.

Martin

Hi Kwikwap,

Thanks for your kind words. We're delighted with how mobiForge looks - it took a lot of effort mind you.

Look forward to seeing you on the forums.

Hi Martin,

Welcome!

Anything in particular in ASP.NET that makes it difficult to follow the .mobi guidelines?

You could always move to PHP, or JSP, or .... ;-)

MobiForge is looking awesome, well done!

My name is Craig Newton, I am a Mobile Application Developer for a company in Cape Town, South Africa. Busy building an Instant Messenger / Web Browser for mobile phones using Java Mobile (J2ME).

I have also used WuRFL to build a mobile content collection site with PHP for the company I currently work at. Mainly following the guidelines mentioned on the DotMobi site for building mobile web pages, also have the book and love it.

Keep up the great work.
____________________________
Craig Newton
Mobile J2ME Application Developer
Blog: http://www.newtondev.com/
Contributor to the J2ME Polish Project: http://www.j2mepolish.org/cms/leftsection/contributors.html

The new design is nice, Thank you!

My name is Liang Chuan live in Guangzhou China. I'm a graphic designer and interested in mobile gadgets and mobile web design, very like the mobile apps who have a cool UI design and user experience. and i have a blog in my Chinese to introduce the mobile web standards to local developer.

Hi,

I'm Jamie and been around the old site for a while (1 year it says).

I have worked with Drupal in the past and made the 'accessibility module' for it,
that allows content to be 'scaled' for mobile devices using a lightweight detection script and
some jiggery pokery to put everything together.

Currently trying to promote my latest mobile site: Mobile movie database
my first .mobi and moving away from the mobile development and towards mobile analytics.

Have found this site a terrific resource.

Keep up the good work guys!!

Br

Jamie

friendly hello! i am a fellow drupal user in ireland. we're planning a drupal meet-up in november. i hope some people from dot.mobi would be able to come... and maybe present something? i saw 'zoro' on IRC tonight. hope to see a few of you, if you're not too busy! or you could come and bring some bumpf to hand out :)

please drop by http://groups.drupal.org/ireland/ and vote on dates, or suggest presentations you'd like to give.

dates: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14541
topics: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14538

Welcome Heather :D

My post thread was deleted why???

If mobi isn't for windows mobile then whats all this about just mobile phones??

I am desiring to develop (hire that is) a game-changing mobile application. Bet you all have that one before? Well, because of its simplicity, usefulness to both consumers and business owners, it captures the imagination of a fledgling YouTube, or Google. I simply want to talk to someone to understand the "ins and outs" and explain the idea, which, I believe is doable. The concept has global implications on the scale of craigslist and the importance of using a browser for web surfing. I welcome a phone call to 281-728-5842 in the US (Central Time Zone) or email at (don't worry my day job is management consulting and not mobile development). Thanks for any help or pointing me to some helpful coaching points.

Schetikos

I think .Mobi is one of the best developments the web has to offer I look forward for things to come from this portal.

UpCode USA '

Jerald Cavitt
CEO/President

My name is Paul from sunny California and am constantly working to increase my development skills to build up many .mobi websites, and dev.mobi (or I should now say MobiForge) is an important resource in that process. My thanks to the people at mTLD for supporting this community.

Do I have to write this in HTML?

Hi, my name is Bruce. I am an "old guy" who is trying to figure out how to write a .mobi site for my business. I seem to learn best by trial and error. More errors than success. I am hoping that I can get helpful information resulting in fewer errors.
First question: What is the proper line or lines that go at the top of the page to properly stage the site for xhtml ?

You should probably be posting this in another section, but you could use this one:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">

:) Welcome to mobiForge!

*edit* Oh I really can't wait to see that "Preview" button return ... :)

Thank you Daniel. I am so naive that I do not even know the protocol of these bulletin boards.

I'm new to the game and I don't get very technical. Used FrontPage in the past.

Just built m3pilot.mobi to complement www.m3pilot.com.
One challenge I enjoyed is the need for economy of words.

Used online tool for the .mobi but hope to learn to write the code myself.
Want to have more control and get better SEO.

Some say that big pages, lots of text helps SEO.
Don't know if that's true.

Lots of text does help SEO if and only IF those texts are actually not spam!

I am not new to the SEO game and I know I am quite good at it (I think *hick*) so my advice as a SEO freak will be to build a site for usability of the people visiting the site.

Search engine spiders cannot read anything else except texts (Google can read the a b c of flash but really that can be neglected).

Don't make a site with flash and flash only unless you know what you are doing and setting up texts in the flash boxes as xml. You should have tried MoFuse as that service is much more easier to deploy when it comes to mobi transformation.

Cheers and oh I am Ishtiaq, a Nokia S60 theme developer and SEO freak. lol.

Hey my name is Roger Moss and I am a Senior Web Developer working for Navy Federal Credit Union. We are in the early stages of developing a mobile presence for our members. Initially this will be current rates, locations, contact info etc. We then plan on going further in phase II with mobile account access and SMS capabilities.

I will be using this site extensively as an excellent source of information with regard to mobile web.

Does anyone know when part 2 of the Mobile Web Developers Guide will be available?

Thanks to all for your knowledge and contributions.

Hi Roger, Welcome!

Delighted that you find the site useful - if you have any suggestions on how we can make it better please send them our way.

Part 2 of the guide is a work in progress right now. The authoring of this guide is intended to be a community driven process where anybody can contribute (on requesting access to do so), but more structured than a wiki. We still have a fair bit of work to do here...

Hello from Melbourne, Australia!
l am setting up an interesting new venture here ln AU based on mobile browsing and will be reading all of these resources and asking all sortS of questions...
Here's the first: Is there anyone in the forum in Melbourne and interested in helping to develop a prototype of our product ?
Good week to all!

Hi from France,

I mainly a Flash Lite developer but I would like to make proper mobile pages to introduce my games and applications.
I'm currenlty fighting with Opera Mini 3 but I hope I'll be able to make something good, even if it seems I'll need to break strict CSS support.

Thanks for this website!

Hi, I'm John and I've just started a new company called MoMeCo - Mobile Media Company. I am using QR Codes to bring printed media to online via .mobi sites. It is based in Dublin and will be opening an office in Adelaide Australia in February.

I'd be interested in anyones thought on QR codes and their initial uses, deployment and overall success for the future... I'll post that topic in another section.

Xruido - I'd be interested in talking to you about your ideas, Adelaide's not too far from Melbourne.

Also, Craignewton mentioned a book that's available from dot mobi.. where's the info on that?

The site is great.. keep up the good work and I hope to see you all soon.

Best regards

John.

Hi John,

We've started using QR codes over on our sister site, mobiThinking, so that people can get to showcase sites quickly.

ABC News for example.

Also a little fun side project of mine, SquigglySquares.com, might make you laugh.

James

Hi all,

All I can say is Mobiforge is great!! Learnt a lot in a short time from this site.

Although I'm from an IT background, its not in web development, I'm looking to find someone preferably UK based, ideally in the Sussex area who can assist with bringing a .mobi idea to life. Had a look through the directory which is a bit limited in contact details (posted this issue in mobiforge.com section) so if anyone has any recommendations feel free to contact me!!!

Hello Its Remzi from Turkey I hope to use this forum often and meet all of you.Thanks for helping to Us. I registered some mobi domains but i dont know what to do, where to start. I will be patient and find out

Hello everyone

We've been working on .mobi projects for eighteen months now and have not looked back. We're a small focused team, with fantastic visionary clients and a thirst for knowledge.

My thanks to all the guys who kicked this project off.

Oh and if anyone wants to chat about joining the team - were hiring!

Russell

www.txttrans.com

Where can I find this?What section.

Hey im Matt, im 19

I made my first website when I was 10 using geocities, then I bought some books a couple of years later and taught myself XHTML PHP and CSS, I then finished college with a BTEC level 3 for Media.

I made several personal websites ranging from blogs to gaming websites. I have just got my foot in door for doing freelancing with my first client.

This is my first time developing for the mobile web, even though it seems to be more basic at the moment, i'm really excited for the things that can happen in the future.

Hellooo

I'm Kerry from Hull, UK and I am very new to the whole not so new world of mobile development, got into the new media buzz about 5 years ago then somehow lost interest but web development and especially design for mobile has captured my interest again. I like the idea of the challenge of creating for the small screen.

Much has changed since my last web design attempts so and I may have a few dumb questions to ask amongst the mobi stuff.

BTW loving the forum design far better than the standard designs I am so used to seeing

Cya about x

Hello,
I'm in Puerto Rico trying to figure out this mobi stuff. I have several web sites dealing with vacations in Rincon, and a few blogs and now I'm trying to figure out the way of the mobi.
My mobi sites are: www.villaorleanspr.mobi and www.rinconpr.mobi. I wrote these for the Blackberry, and one site is indexed by Google, but not by the Google Mobi.
Can anyone tell me how to get your site indexed by the Google Mobi bot?
I've upped a mobi site map, and I think I've done the xhtml right in web site. It shows up nicely on my Blackberry Curve, but without indexing by the Mobi Bot I'm invisible. Each site is a page long, as I don't want to develope them untill I figure this out. Any suggestions?

Luis
in puerto rico

Hey guys,

This is Igor from Mobify.Me

We use DeviceAtlas from dotMobi in order to provide a hosted transcoding service. In a nutshell, you get to make choices on your existing site in order to optimize it for mobile. Then, we provide you with a secret domain to point your DNS (m.site.com) to. That's it!

Hope you like it,

Igor
http://mobify.me

Steve Janke here, a conservative blogger in Canada. I've just deployed a mobile-friendly version of stevejanke.com at m.stevejanke.com. It's not breaking any new ground as far as mobi sites are concerned, but as far as I can tell, I'm the only political blogger in Canada who is providing a mobile version of his site. Thanks for the verification tools at this site. Exactly what I needed to confirm I had all the i's dotted and t's crossed to go live with the mobile site.

Hello my name is Rick and I am from Wisconsin. I am always looking toward the future and although some are skeptical I am sure that one way or another most sites will become more mobile friendly whether .mobi is the the big thing or even if web development standards change or are geared toward mobile friendly in the .com world. The problem is for me is I am alright at developing simple html sites for business that do not use all the bells and whistles. For me people want very fast loading and simple to navigate. Where is a good place to begin learning the correct way to develop a .mobi site.

Hi there! My name is Pascal, I'm from the Netherlands. I'm quite new in building mobile websites, so I hope I'll learn a lot here!

Welcome to all our newest members! If there is any content or feature you would like to see on the site, or if you need any technical help, be sure to let us know!

Hi there all. This certainly is an interesting innovation and technology especially for this part of the world where i am. We lack behind,yes at times but the content is so great and keeps one updated.
Now is the time i put all to the test by building my own .mobi site... Anywhere i can get sdks and so forth??

Nyasha M -Aspiring .mobi developer and enthusiast

Toronto Marketing Group
Hello from Canada. It's warm today. I own several hundred .mobi domains and have developed a few and doing business. I'm sure the nay sayers of .mobi will eat crow because there are great sites out there now and in my case they are generating money. We have built sites for others including one that paid us $xx,xxx
to do so.
One down many more to come.

I have been given a challenge from my client: learn how to gather claimant information via mobile devices in addition to the desktop or we will need someone else! Over the last five years I have been writing programs to gather information for class action law suites using HTML, PHP and SQL Server. Now they want the same information obtainable by devices like the Blackberry and iPhone. These sites are heavy on input, so I am trying to get my bearings on realistic expectations of mobile devices e.g. which devices should be targeted and can the regular tags be used.

Overwhelmed!!!!

Todd Cary
Petaluma, CA

I'm alive, living in Hertfordshire.

Am an Oracle professional by day (but sometimes in jeans!!) with experince in Oracle DB, forms develpment, Business Intelligence and much more.

Enjoy web type development too. Had the odd site in the past and am now typing to get ncfc.mobi through the site checker.

Steve

Welcome to our newest members, glad to see you're all embracing the mobile future.

Be sure to post in the ready.mobi forum if your need some help!

Hello guys, you guys are doing good jobs. I have an internet radio which I build by myself and now trying to design and build a mobile site for the same online radio. I need your assistance and help in doing this. I am asking if I can possibly get a template which I can study and possibly modify to sooth my requirement.Thanks

Hello & welcome! We provide a free mobile template here. Feel free to download and modify, and let us know if you have any problems.

Hi, im anto from Nairobi and interested in mobile application development. it is only recently that people in africa are embracing the power of mobile applications. To start im developing an application to help people get directions in the city and where to pick taxis.
i know this is the right place to get started. i know i'll get all the help i need

Hi,

My name is Niall. I'm an application developer.

I m based in Dublin, Ireland and looking to team up with developers in a start-up company to develop mobile applications. I would like to meet up with Android Developers or Symbian Developers.

If you are interested let me know.

I'm Brian.

I've read your Developers' Guide and I find it very interesting. Is your programme good for someone that knows nothing about developing mobile applications. I'm 53 years and am not entirely computer illiterate. I'd like to learn to develope applications for mobiles: It'll be good for my "old age": Keep the mind active. Seriously, I'd like to start with specific applications like bus and train time tables, interractive application to make doctors' appointments, on the move, in conjunction with my national health website. I don't know how easy or difficult it will be, but I'm prepared to slog.

Do you think I can do it?

Thanks

Brian

Brian,

The Developer's Guide does assume some knowledge of desktop web programming but it shouldn't be too hard to pick up. To learn the basics you could try some of the tutorials on http://www.w3schools.com/ My advice would be to simply start playing around -- you can't do any damage by trying to create a few sample pages, and view the results on your phone. Once you have tried a few static pages you can experiment with dynamic content that is generated on the fly. To do this you will probably need to learn a programming language such as PHP or Python (though there are many others). Best of luck!

Ronan Cremin, dotMobi

Hello - I just signed up. I am interested in developing a banking application for the mobile devices but I am so not technical even with the simple guides - is there anyone out there that can develop mobile applications? Thanks.

I'm Jay

Testing Manager for a global provider of mobile technology and content services. Specializing in carrier and on-deck solutions and of recent cornering the market in Mobiler Web advertising

http://miainternational.com/
http://quicksites.mobi/
http://www.miaadfactory.mobi/