Tag Archives: Content Adaptation
Mobile Sites with Joomla! CMS
As the number of mobile devices continues to outpace the number of desktop computers, the creation of mobile-accessible sites is becoming more and more important. This article addresses the issue of making a Joomla based site mobile-accessible.For other content management systems such as Typo3, Wordpress, and Drupal, the making of mobile-friendly versions of the sites has already been discussed on mobiForge (see Multi-client Websites with the Typo3 CMS and WURFL, Mobile-Friendly Blogging with WordPress, and Creating Mobile Sites in Drupal Using Multisites). This article is devoted to achieving a similar effect in Joomla using the 'PDA-mambot'... Read More
User Agent Switcher config file
December 19, 2007, by ronan
Chris Pederick's User Agent Switcher is an essential Firefox add-on for anybody in the business of creating mobile web sites. We've talked about this before but it is worth mentioning again. This little add-on lets your Firebox (or Flock / Mozilla / Seamonkey) emulate a mobile device in its requests by sending a configurable User-Agent string. I've attached a config file to this post that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself... Read More
Content Transformation Addendum to Web Browsing Style Guide
September 28, 2007, by Jo Rabin
If you have taken the time and trouble to create a "made for mobile" experience, the last thing you would want is that this gets altered by a third party. We've published a consultative document that suggests ways for you to stop that happening... Read More
Setting HTTP headers to advise transcoding proxies
September 28, 2007, by atrasatti
If you want to add specific HTTP headers to your pages and applications there are many different solutions depending on your environment. There are a lot of reasons why you would want to add an HTTP header, but in this article I want to use as an example a couple of headers that will help you declare that your content should not be transformed and, if you do content adaptation, which headers you use to detect the browser and the device... Read More
Lightweight Device-Detection in PHP
June 1, 2007, by ronan
One problem that keeps cropping up when developing mobile content is how to differentiate between mobile devices and desktop browsers. We need to be able to do this before we can think about content adaptation. The "proper" way to do this is to use a full device detection database such as DeviceAtlas (see our tutorial here) but the following method may be sufficient to get you started... Read More
