Thursday, July 30, 2009

Mofuse Makes Your Site Mobile

If your blog is part of your business, or if you make money from it, you want to make sure it's accessible to as many people as possible, from anywhere. Unfortunately, depending on what's powering your site, it might not be readable or even viewable on a mobile device. Rather than completely redesign a page specifically for the mobile Web, give Mofuse a try. It provides Web designers and site owners with a set of comprehensive tools to make sure their sites can go mobile and look good at the same time.






Accounts at Mofuse are free. Creating an account is a one-step process, and you can immediately log in and then take advantage of all the features, creating your own mobile page. Mofuse pulls the content for the mobile sites you create from your existing RSS feed. If you're creating a mobile site to mirror your blog, make sure the software that's powering your blog generates an RSS feed for you.



If you like, use your own domain name and create a subdomain or a mobile version of your site, or you can create a completely new mobile blog based on the RSS feed of your existing site. If you don't want to use your own URL, you can get a free subdomain of mofuse.mobi that you can link on your site.

When you import the RSS from your blog, you can leave your mobile site bare and publish it to the world, or you can customize it using any of the site's design tools. Mobifuse provides a WYSIWYG site editor that allows you to customize your mobile blog just the way you want it to appear, and tweak the way the site renders your RSS feed. If you want the background to look a certain way or you want to change any of the graphics or layout, Mofuse also provides an Ajax page designer that will allow you to create templates for each page that the service renders for you. You can even use your own images and banners so the site looks like it's yours.



All the sites that Mofuse makes are customized for screens 3 inches or smaller, so you can be sure it'll look good when viewed on a mobile device such as a Blackberry or cell phone. Mofuse even provides a widget for your regular blog, so you can get SMS messages to your site sent to their mobile devices, and offers ad sharing on your mobile site so you can make some money. If you're looking for a method to make sure that your audience isn't limited to people sitting in front of a computer, Mofuse is a good option.

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