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Going mobile with Mippin

Can they read your blog on their iphone?More and more people are working on the move.  Mobile phones are bcoming increasingly powerful and many now offer internet access.  Yet most sites are optimised for proper sized screens, not miniature ones.

I like the idea of people being able to read my blog while on the move, so I went looking for some mobile plugins.

The first one I tried, the WP mobile edition, came up with a message that it had not been installed properly.  That got deleted.

The second one, the Wordpress mobile pack, worked, but showed linked to all the pages at the top, including pages where I was developing stuff and particularly wanted kept out of sight.  So that had to go too.

The next one was called Mobilize by Mippin.  This worked, and is the one I am, for the time being, using.  Here’s the blurb:

The Mobilize by Mippin Wordpress Plugin is a configuration free add on. Once installed any cell phone accessing your URL will be redirected to the Mippin rendering of your blog. Mippin renders perfectly for every cell phone type. Even the iPhone renders your blog better and faster than going to the direct PC URL.

It certainly seems  better than the others. You don’t have to do anything other than just activate it and it works.

The only thing I did not like about this plugin was the fact that the Mippin logo was always at the top of my mobile site.  However while doing research for this very blog post you are reading now peeps, I have found >> this site where you can customise it so it shows your own logo and colour scheme.  Which of course I have now done.

Just goes to show that blogging brings its own rewards.

Do you use a mobile plugin?  How have you found it?  Do you have another mobile plugin you can recommend?

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The social media buttons in the Site Sketch wordpress plugin

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The UK Supreme Court IT – revolutionary or rubbish?

Supreme Court logo

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Lawnet logo

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A screenshot of the favicon.cc web-site

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Downloading email

Photo by Nigel Maine

If  you learn about the internet and how it works as I do, by picking it up piecemeal as you go along, there are often huge gaps in your knowledge that you don’t realise.  One has been revealed to me recently about email.
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