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Use MSM to create mobile version of website

January 12, 2011 9:19pm

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  • #1 / Jan 12, 2011 9:19pm

    Drydocked

    26 posts

    I have a website that consists of about 8 weblogs, pretty much a standard EE 1.6 install. The templates are all designed to work in regular browsers.

    I would like to display the same content in a more mobile-device friendly format, without changing the various URLs I have embedded in the weblog entries. The embedded URLs are of the form “{path=template_library/template}entry_id” or “{site_url}/folder/”.

    My thought is that I can set up another domain: http://mobile_device.mysite.com using MSM, and point it to the existing weblogs. The template library and templates in the new site would have the same names as the template library templates in the original site, but of course would be laid out differently, with different style sheets.

    Is this a reasonable way to proceed? What other methods are possible?

    Thanks

  • #2 / Jan 13, 2011 10:01am

    Sue Crocker

    26054 posts

    Hi, Drydocked. That’s pretty much how I’d approach things. You might not need to use the MSM, but it’s certainly one way of attacking this.

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