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MAX ALPIZAR 01 Feb 2012 16:45

I had two versions of my webpage (using custom domains): www.mypage.com and mobile.mypage.com, the latter contains Meta Tags and is designed for mobile phone access.

I would like to automatically redirect mobile phone users who access my standard page to my mobile formatted page. Is it possible to do this?

Best regards,

Max Alpízar

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Whane The Whip 01 Feb 2012 19:54

Hi Max,

I've recently been looking for a wikidot solution to this as well. While I don't have an easy answer *yet*, maybe someone else does and in the meantime I'll provide links for what I've found so far:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/running-desktop-and-mobile-versions-of.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/help-google-index-your-mobile-site.html

These relate primarily to search results in Google and teaching Google how to show the difference between a mobile page versus a desktop page (it's easier to let Google do the work). The issue with this though is that it only works for people arriving to your site via Google search and would not necessarily work for people that type in your URL directly or click a referral link. I think this is a good place to start though.

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Ed Johnson 01 Feb 2012 22:35

I too have been looking into this off and on. Most of the stuff I'm reading lately is telling me that trying to redirect based on browser detection is a bad idea. I've been leaning toward using a "responsive design" that use CSS media queries and viewport meta tags on a single site to determine the best way to display content based on the size that the user's device supports. Do a Google search on "responsive web design" and you'll find a lot of good material.

I'm not aware of any hacks we can use on Wikidot to redirect based on browser detection techniques. I believe those solutions rely on access to the site's <head> </head> section and we can't do that. It might be possible to do it in an iframed page, but that seems like it would not create a very nice user experience if it even worked at all.

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