How to set up a mobile site in an hour
Posted by Brent Dixon on March 17th, 2008
Over an IM chat earlier today, Trey Reeme explained to me how he used nearly-free tools to set up a mobile site for his credit union in no time (formatting and links added):
It was cake so far – no mobile banking yet, but that’s on our vendor’s end.
I just:
- Grabbed a wordpress blog
- Put a couple pages up of plain html
- Grabbed the rss feed
- Plugged into a mofuse site
- It created an iPhone-optimized .mobi site
Here it is: http://tdecurates.mofuse.mobi
It’s just a test site for now – a proof of concept – but it shows that I can build a separate iPhone site in an hour.
There are limitations – advertising plagues the free version. But for $3 a month, the paid version is not bad.
Awesome tip, Mr. Reeme.
Trey showed the 30 under 30 group this late last week in Chicago.
More importantly, there was a lesson in his presentation around this – instead of going through an enormously long process of departments and approvals beforehand, Trey just did it…then showed them how it’s done. Sometimes that is all it takes.
Very cool.
Another option is you’re using Wordpress is to utilzing Alex King’s WP plugin for mobile. I run it on my personal blog and it works great!
Link: http://tinyurl.com/2w4fce
Hey, just happened to stumble upon this post. One thing caught my attention and that was him saying ”...advertising plagues the free version.”
As of right now, we only display advertisements on the free accounts if the user wishes to enroll in our Revenue Sharing program.
If they choose not to enroll, no ads, still free.
I like the concept of using MoFuse for Credit Unions, neat.. Any detailed questions contact me at the email I entered.
Sweet. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission by committee.