With the advent of better, faster, and smarter mobile browsing and mobile devices there is an obvious need for businesses and organizations to capture and manage their visitors who are engaging with their sites via these devices and frameworks.
One of the most basic needs is detecting a mobile device and then sending them to the appropriate site or content.
And, one of the easiest ways is to use a simple service like DetectMobileBrowsers.mobi which is a simple service that’ll detect and then redirect for you:
This PHP function lets you choose how to manage your mobile visitors, they can be redirected to a page built for mobiles or you can use it to decide which markup language and stylesheet to show that user.
Sounds pretty good to me. What’s even nicer is that it’s free for non-profits…! I’m liking that a lot.
Check it out and let me know if you use it.
Jim says
Good info for non-profits
Rich Curry says
I found this didn't work so well on either really old phones or really new ones.
In the end I went for Wapple architect. It has a groovy function isMobileDevice() that is used through webservices. I have not been able to find a phone that it doesn't accurately detect.
I don't have to pay for it because I am non-profit too. Which is nice. Find it at http://wapl.info
5 stars!
But has anyone found a good tool for converting videos to mobile formats on the fly? This is the next challenge I face.
human3rror says
thanks man!