‘Bout time I created a mobile theme for this site. Notice the new Themes category in the Navigation. You have two juicy themes to choose from: Emerald City or Mobile Witch.
Must admit, it was fun. Design focus was for PDA viewing. I haven’t conquered making it friendly for my ancient mobile phone (Sony Ericsson T616) yet. That will have to be a project for another day (yawn).
So, what do you think? Is this design PDA friendly? What suggestions do you have to make it better?
If Mobile Witch does not render well on your mobile device, can you let me know your:
- device
- OS
- browser
P.S. If you haven’t tried creating your own theme for Word Press, what are you waiting for? Instructions for WordPress Theme Development can be found on the wonderful wordpress wiki. But honestly, the way themes are implemented in wordpress is so intuitive, you may find you can mostly just follow your instincts!
(For cell browsers at least) you may want to kill the Meta menu, the trackback links, any large images and shorten the page a little. My poor little V600 can only spit out a:
413: Requested Entity Too Large
My mobile always reminds me of Dave Shea’s post about Mobile CSS.
WordPress does make things easy when making themes! It didn’t take long at all for me to get my personal site‘s design into it – not that I have a complex design. (note: site looks like crap if you don’t use a real browser on a Mac)
Shawn, you are so “on the money”. I’ve ditched the Meta menu and dropped images on “mobilewitch”. But, I still have a sneakin’ suspicion that your V600 may still think it is too big. Are you tellin’ me I need to drop a few pounds??? ;-)
testing from my handheld