If your building mobile websites this could be handy

[Gray Marble]

low post count so fill in the blanks

go to springbox site slash mobilizer its a mobile preview desktop app free to download. You can view: Blackberry Storm, Iphone4, HTC EVO, and Palm Pre

Preview mobile websites, design mockups, and local HTML on Mac or PC.

• WebKit-based Adobe AIR app lets you preview mobile content on a variety of phone shells
• Visit any URL or drag and drop local HTML, Flash, or image files
• View the same site on multiple devices:
• Export PNGs of device views - perfect for portfolios
• Quick, painless installation and upgrades via Adobe AIR

 

[tharako]

Thats great, it will help me to make screenshots for my landing page

 

[misteruk]

Thanks for the info. I was using IBB Demo but wanted something with more phone options.

 

[AQGrimm]

Thanks, I was looking for something of this kind as I'm starting my Mobile website business

 

[erakor]

that is cool....thank you.....

 

[ukescuba]

You should also test to see how well your sites perform as well as validate Mite keynotes Free edition is possibly one of the most stringent testers I have come across they have 100s devices to compare how well you site will work on say an iPhone, blackberry or android... Better still it's free...

http://mite.keynote.com/

End of the day though you can't beat testing your sites on a real handset!

My recommendation is have an android for your main phone ie samsung galaxy, get an itouch, and get yourself a blackberry pay as you go... They where selling the 8550 for like $65 the other day! You don't need a contract either since it uses wifi... But I have seen a lot of differences between the way the blackberry renders mobile sites and the way your iPhone or droid renders code

Also remember a lot of emulators won't pick up screen size or user agent detection that's used for switching between regular desktop sites and mobile sites - hence my above comments

Hope that helps

Jay

 

[Gray Marble]

Thanks ukescuba for the info. You seem to be all up in the mobile game. I'm just starting out and was wondering if $500 is too high. I'd throw in a qr code, and 5 pages. I figure $100 a page.If I like then $75 lol.

 

[ukescuba]

Thanks ukescuba for the info. You seem to be all up in the mobile game. I'm just starting out and was wondering if $500 is too high. I'd throw in a qr code, and 5 pages. I figure $100 a page.If I like then $75 lol.

i normally do $250 to $350 site + extra $100 for qr code tracking service for a year but can knock these out in no time at all

if the site isn't a cookie cutter site and is totally unique in its design than i charge upwards of $500 - i've charged over $2000 a couple of times for very custom mobile sites

if you can get $500 go for it!

 

[darkmonk]

Mite looks awesome, thanks for the tip!

It also works on Windows...

 

[ycfme]

Is this the site your referring to?

 hxxp://www.springbox.com/

low post count so fill in the blanks

go to springbox site slash mobilizer its a mobile preview desktop app free to download. You can view: Blackberry Storm, Iphone4, HTC EVO, and Palm Pre

Preview mobile websites, design mockups, and local HTML on Mac or PC.

• WebKit-based Adobe AIR app lets you preview mobile content on a variety of phone shells
• Visit any URL or drag and drop local HTML, Flash, or image files
• View the same site on multiple devices:
• Export PNGs of device views - perfect for portfolios
• Quick, painless installation and upgrades via Adobe AIR

 

[gr00vy]

uke, are you hand-coding your sites or using a special tool for mobile site creation? I really want to get into this market but it's hard to know which tool is best, and most of them charge a chunk of change. Really want to know if something works well before up front. Or better yet, find a free tool

i normally do $250 to $350 site + extra $100 for qr code tracking service for a year but can knock these out in no time at all

if the site isn't a cookie cutter site and is totally unique in its design than i charge upwards of $500 - i've charged over $2000 a couple of times for very custom mobile sites

if you can get $500 go for it!

 

[doyoubuzz]

have you seen this course?
simplecashsites

I was wondering which software they are talking about.
Any idea?

 

[ukescuba]

uke, are you hand-coding your sites or using a special tool for mobile site creation? I really want to get into this market but it's hard to know which tool is best, and most of them charge a chunk of change. Really want to know if something works well before up front. Or better yet, find a free tool

Mix right now of hand coding and using my own mobile framework for wordpress, I don't like the majority of mobile plugins for wordpress as they don't output proper business mobile sites, there are a few good mobile template sites but for the most part I would rather have full control over the code as rarely do any of the templates or auto generated sites validate well or are truly light weight - hope that makes sense

Cheers

Uke

 

[andayiseo]

Hey Guyz what has been the Best strategy for your mobile Marketing in finding Clients?

 

[mcc777]

Hey Guyz what has been the Best strategy for your mobile Marketing in finding Clients?

I have been using local biz listings like Manta etc. I then visit the site on my mobile then and if they are mobile unfriendly, I just build a mobile version of their site and email them a letter. It is working pretty well as I have just started and have landed 4 clients . I could do more but I'm finding out the truth that many business owners are not very savvy when it comes to mobile. Reaction varies. I had one guy who told me that mobile is not likely to catch on so he's going to wait (to go out of business more likely). Like I said, I have some pretty backward thinking business owners in the area that I live in so if you live in a fairly large metro (where people don't think you're a 'hoveround power chair' sales person when you call and mention 'mobile') you should do okay.

 

[mcc777]

Thanks, I was looking for something of this kind as I'm starting my Mobile website business

If you want to use a good online mobile emulator, I found one that's better than the run of the mill I've seen most sites using and. It lets you emulate 5 phones Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung, Android and iPhone. The cool thing about it is you can pop back and forth between phone types without ever leaving the page. I found it on a site that I stumbled on by accident so I grabbed the code and adapted it for my own use. PM me for details.

 

[rgfxct]

Happy New Year mcc777 et ALL

As I can't pm and would love to check out the emulator you are mentioning, at your convenience can you pm me?

Thanks much!

If you want to use a good online mobile emulator, I found one that's better than the run of the mill I've seen most sites using and. It lets you emulate 5 phones Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung, Android and iPhone. The cool thing about it is you can pop back and forth between phone types without ever leaving the page. I found it on a site that I stumbled on by accident so I grabbed the code and adapted it for my own use. PM me for details.