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#1 2008-02-07 4:24 pm
making iWeb-site iPhone "compatible": possible?
leaving aside my personal opinion that Apple needs to build something into iWeb allowing users to make their iWeb-created sites and pages more iPhone friendly, i'm curious as to whether or not there are creative ways to make my current iWeb blog more iPhone friendly.
i know, i know: i can already view my sites, and most any other sites, on my iPhone, and its not that bad when i'm at home, on my wireless network. but i want to configure it in such a way that i could view it whilst on the EDGE network, much like the iPhone versions of facebook, digg, and ilounge.
i've tried sifting through some of the stuff on the developer website, but to be quite honest, i'm not that handy with coding. that's why i'm using iWeb. but i do have access to an HTML editor.
if there's just no way in hell this is possible, at all, how could i start building something that was much more iPhone friendly?
suck it, trebek.
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#2 2008-02-07 5:49 pm
- FutureDreamz
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Re: making iWeb-site iPhone "compatible": possible?
use an editor with inline viewing and download a template.
Thanks for clicking.
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#4 2008-04-06 11:51 am
Re: making iWeb-site iPhone "compatible": possible?
It's as simple as making a consciously compatible design based on percents rather than hard pixel widths. Although, the iPhone's screen is pretty wide, so it does give it definite room to wiggle.
Also, look into CSS's media property:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html
-Tim
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#5 2008-04-12 5:09 pm
- Antonio
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Re: making iWeb-site iPhone "compatible": possible?
Sites like Facebook and iLounge, as well as Amazon and Fandango, offer separate revisions of their sites for handhelds through reusability, by keeping their site content separate via a SQL or XML database. This essentially means they can access exactly the same content for both versions by calling it in via a controller layer, and handle design issues via a view layer (MVC framework, especially with Fandango, as they're a J2EE operation). If you're not familiar enough with coding, you can still get a jump on accomplishing this by using a CMS like Drupal or Joomla, both of which use a database server to store and deliver content. You could run as many different versions of your site as you like, all delivering content from the same database.
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#6 2008-04-17 10:38 am
Re: making iWeb-site iPhone "compatible": possible?
FutureDreamz wrote:
use an editor with inline viewing and download a template.
I swear, Giskard at AAF makes better posts than you.
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