blp

Hi
I run a couple of websites, and more people are using PDAs (including my X5!) and I feel like making a PDA version of my sites. Are there any quick convertor programs around? Or do I have to do it manually to reduce the images, frames sizes etc etc?
Brett

Gigi

There are a few online services that will do this, but they're geared towards the end-user not the webpage designer:

http://www.skweezer.net/
http://www.webxcope.com/rfxDM/goto.php
http://mobileleap.net/mainsite/

Note that the formatting may change a lot and that some features may be disabled as a result.

blp

Yep, very interesting. Ideally need something I can create a decent fron end with though. Any more suggestions?

yannickevenas

What I did on job's web site, was to create pages specially for the PDA version.
I created a folder on the root site called PDA, and I created as many pages as I had on the regular web site. For the index.htm I named it pda.htm, for contacts.htm I named it pdacontacts.htm etc...
Than I copied and pasted the content in the pda pages, resizing the fonts, resampling the pictures...
On the main page of the regular site, I copied this in the head:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">
var isCE = navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Windows CE")>0;
if (isCE)
{
window.location.href="pda/pda.htm";
}
</script>
If you want to take a look at the site here is the link: www.hope-tfc.org
The page for the PDA is www.hope-tfc.org/pda/pda.htm
If you use a PDA (that does not have the internet explorer registry tweak to internet explorer 5), you will be redirected to the page made for the pda.
I hope it helps.

Xelkos

Hmm... someone write an extention into Firefox to emulate the view of web pages as seen by a PDA screen. That might help the public to get an idea.

Hmm... weird idea, but...
Make an application to design webpages while on your PDA.
Would give you something to do while commuting, ... if you not the driver that is.

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blp

Thanks for that.
Ill look at amending myself.
Brett