How To: Create Or Convert Website Into Mobile Format

by Ferman Aziz in How-To, Tutorials 19

Now a days more and more people are using smart phones to access the internet, because of this growing demand web developers and designers must focus on mobile format websites too. Don’t worry, you don’t have to learn any programming language to do that. There are few online services available that will help you to create or convert websites into mobile format.

Here i have mentioned few tools and tutorials that will help you out. If your web site or blog is running on WordPress you can easily setup a rich mobile theme for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Palm OS and Samsung touch mobile using WPTouch plugin.

Online Services

Google’s Conversion Utility

This is as simple as it gets. Enter the URL of the website and check whether or not you want to include images. Click Go and you now have a mobile-optimized version of the site!

Google’s Conversion Utility

mobiSiteGalore

mobiSiteGalore is a FREE mobile website builder that allows you to easily build, publish & share a full-fledged mobile website that is guaranteed to work fine on any mobile phone.

MobiSiteGalore

Zinadoo

Easily build your very own fully-customised mobile website for FREE with Zinadoo’s site creation services.

Zinadoo

FreeMobiz

FreeMobiz allows you to create a mobile compatible website of your own and make your presence felt on the new web – the mobile web.

FreeMobiz

Winksite

Winksite makes it easy to create a mobile website and community that can be shared worldwide.

WinkSite

Mobify

Mobify is a web service that provides a quick way to optimize a site for mobile access. Publishers, web designers and bloggers use Mobify to design visually engaging and usable mobile layouts for their existing sites.

Mobify

Mippin

Using Mippin Maker you can convert your web site or blog into a Mippsite.

Mippin

MoFuse

Create, layout and launch a complete mobile sites in minutes. Build it yourself, or they can build it for you. The basic version is free and the Pro version costs $3 per month.

Mofuse

WordPress Mobile themes Plugin

WPtouch Pro is a WordPress plugin which adds powerful, easy-to-use features to WordPress for mobile + tablet theme support.
Check out more WordPress mobile plugins to setup mobile theme for iPhone and other mobile devices.

wordpress mobile theme plugin

Few Helpful Tutorials

How to Convert a Website for a Mobile Browser

Mobile websites are generally scaled-down versions of an existing dynamic website. Large graphics, flash elements and banner ads are stripped from mobile websites to display only the most important information from the main website.

How to Convert a Website for a Mobile Browser

Convert your site to a friendly mobile viewer

Easy steps to convert your website to a friendly mobile viewer.

Convert your site to a friendly mobile viewer

How to convert or view any website on a mobile phone or device

Wish your favorite websites had a mobile friendly version that you could use on your mobile phone or device?

Convert or view any website on a mobile phone or device

Preparing Your Website For Mobile Devices

Preparing Your Website For Mobile Devices

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Author : Ferman Aziz

Ferman Aziz is a designer, poet, writer and a good chess player. Check out his Google Profile. He is also the founder of PelFusion. You can follow him on twitter and facebook.

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  • http://www.studioweber.com Alex Flueras

    Useful article. I was actually looking for something like this as I am starting to make my websites more mobile friendly. Thanks for sharing.

  • designi1

    Thanks for referring the designi1 article on the list! Nice round up btw… would help me if i got this sooner :D

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  • http://www.anythinggraphic.net Anything Graphic

    Has anybody had any success with Google’s Conversion or mobiSiteGalor (the first and second free listings)?

    Anyway, very interesting article. Gonna have to try a couple out. Thanks!

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  • http://about.kyk.cz Radek

    You can use Wirenode.com service too. There you can mobilize blog or RSS feed or create mobile website.

  • http://www.frogsnet.co.cc Valentine

    the first too are the famous and well working and if googles one is not working try http://skweezer.com it works fine even this minuite

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  • http://code.google.com/p/phpmobilizer Andrew

    There’s a new project called phpMobilizer that’s similar to the Google mobile converter, but you host it on your own server. Runs on php and apache. http://code.google.com/p/phpmobilizer/

    • http://www.leechermods.com.nyud.net/ Admin

      Thanks a lot! I wish it will be possible to fetch RSS feed on another <ins>self hosted</ins> (php script) webspace and link to the mobile version.

  • http://twitter.com/CharlyOmer Charly Omer

    Great article ferman, you might also add http://www.mobilova.com to the list, it's one of the easiest way to create and monetize the mobile version of a website and takes less than 2 mins to set up.

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    Didn't even heard that Google has an application for this task.. Thanks!

  • Kassandra

    THX! Exactly what I´ve been looking for!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jitaditya Jitaditya Narzary

    thanks a lot….

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  • http://www.s40theme.info Desta

    Nice atricle..In your opinion, where the most good?

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