Mobile Web: How do I direct user?

[cgm225]

When someone visits my website... say Example.com, how do I direct people using blackberries, cell phones, pda's, etc, to a mobile version of the website, while sending the rest to the regular site?  Or, should the regular site somehow be compatible with mobile web devices?  I have read this but still need some help understanding how to code a webpage for mobile devices, and how to get those mobile devices directed to that webpage.

 

Thanks in advance!

[genericnumber1]

http://www.andymoore.info/php-to-detect-mobile-phones/

 

it might not be the best implementation, but it will give you some ideas.

[ardyandkari]

i believe that there is a good way using css...dont remember how, but pretty sure it works.

[corbin]

CSS?  What?  How would CSS redirect a user?

[Daniel0]

CSS?  What?  How would CSS redirect a user?

 

IE-only:

 

* {
    background: expression(location.href='http://www.google.com');
}

 

Yes, it does work.

[ardyandkari]

information on styling for handhelds

w3c site for mobile css

refrence for handheld css

 

now, please remember...i didnt take the time to really delve into these sites...if they dont help you, i'm sorry...

[corbin]

So you could use a link tag with a mediatype="handheld" attr? Not redirection, but it would work.

 

 

IE-only:

 

* {
   background: expression(location.href='http://www.google.com');
}

 

Yes, it does work.

 

I knew there was some kind of JS type thing in CSS, but I didn't know that people actually used it. Guess the whole IE-only thing is why.

 

Edit (Daniel0): Added real quotes.

[Daniel0]

Well, it's stupid and it can bring the browser to its knees. It will not just be evaluated when you load the page, but also when you resize the viewport, move your cursor and all sorts of things.

[cgm225]

So again, how should I be directing mobile users to a mobile home page?

[corbin]

Well, it's stupid and it can bring the browser to its knees. It will not just be evaluated when you load the page, but also when you resize the viewport, move your cursor and all sorts of things.

 

Really?  That's gay.

 

(P.S.  I'm really bad about ghetto quoting things....  Bad habbit hehe.)

 

So again, how should I be directing mobile users to a mobile home page?

 

You could do the suggested by ardyandkari, although I'm not sure if all phones will work with that.  Or, you could check the user-agent or something.

[ardyandkari]

or you could just not worry about it...probably easier in the long run, besides...the iphone renders pages as is...i would think that will become more and more common in the future with phones...