In the first quarter of 2008 we set out to develop a true mobile web site for DUI.com. We didn’t want to just add links to a page the says “Click Here for Mobile Version,” we wanted our website to detect if the visitor was coming from a mobile phone browser and then automatically redirect the visitor to the mobile site. By doing this we can ensure not to display flash or large pictures that might not be automatically resized on the mobile browser (my BlackBerry 8830 resizes, but my iPhone and G1 don’t). The purpose of designing the mobile site was simple, we wanted to make sure that our mobile visitors could convert to sales easily. We had found just because you visit a web site from an iPhone or G1, that doesn’t mean you are going to see the website the way it was intended to be viewed. Both of the browsers used on the iPhone and G1 still don’t display flash and can frustrate the visitor trying to view a page on 320 pixels wide when the page was probably designed to fit on 1024 pixels wide. The popular mobile devices to visit our websites each day according to our analytics software Omniture Site Catalyst are:
- Apple iPhone
- Apple iPod Touch
- Palm Treo 755p
- Samsung SGH-i617
- T-Mobile’s G1 (Google Phone)
- BlackBerry 8310
- BlackBerry 8130
- BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl)
- Danger Sidekick III
- HTC PPC6800
- BlackBerry 8830
Here are a few our customers mobile pages that we released this week:
Los Angeles DUI Attorney Neil Shouse of Souse Law Group has flash, videos and several outbound links for his Los Angeles County, California page on DUI.com that work great on the traditional desktop browsers, but not with mobile browsers. We developed specific mobile pages for Mr. Shoues’s Los Angeles County page ( http://m.dui.com/california/los-angeles ) as well as his other counties that he has with us in Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada. We made sure that the the images that were displayed would render well on the most popular mobile phones that visit our site each day.
- m.dui.com/california/los-angeles
- m.dui.com/california/riverside
- m.dui.com/california/ventura
- m.dui.com/california/orange
- m.dui.com/california/san-bernardino
- m.dui.com/nevada/clark
