Mobile Sites with EE
Garrett Winder of Erskine Design wrote a .net magazine article on how to create a dedicated mobile site with ExpressionEngine.
In the last few years mobile has absolutely exploded. It’s the way people shop, browse the web and check email and the numbers are increasing exponentially. Because of this, we need to shift our focus on building websites explicitly for the desktop and really start thinking about the context that our work is being seen in and interacted with. We need to rethink the way we’re building websites.
In this tutorial we’re going to run through some ways to integrate mobile into our ExpressionEngine workflow.
Garrett reviews the differences between a dedicated site and a responsive approach (scaling the site dynamically based on device viewport). In the tutorial he’s opted to use a dedicated approach. He covers using global variables, creating a subdomain and all of the template work required. All of the project files are available for download so you can follow along.
Read the entire article from Garrett.
Posted on Jan 08, 2012 by Ryan Irelan
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Mike — 08:11 on 01.23.2012
Good article! I know I’ve seen similar articles about mobile-only sites in EE using different methods. I can’t find them now, does anyone have links?
Kathy — 04:02 on 05.04.2012
The article was absolutely long, so I needed my printer to print them out so I can read at my own time. I definitely agree that the mobile platform cannot be ignored any longer. Learning how to use Expression Engine to create dynamic websites that are able to cater to all sorts of mobile devices like the mobile phone and tablet PC is important. Typography, programming and design are just some of the factors that differentiate a good mobile web page and one that is bad.