Techniques Behind Modern Web
26 Feb
As you may notice, I’ve created a mobile version of this blog using service from WireNode.com. I’m very impressive with the simplicity of the service - it took me only about 5 minutes to do everything. Now you can read JustTalkAboutWeb DOT com from any mobile phone (optimized for iPhone too) via the link:
http://justtalkaboutweb.wirenode.mobi/
To get more info about WireNode, I sent an e-mail for company’s history and Tomas Zeman, WireNode’s innovator, said:
“We have started 3 years ago and we were doing services for mobile operators. We are cooperating with O2, T-mobile and Vodafone. In those three years, we have created more than 20 different mobile services for them. (MMS sharing, mobile surveys, chats, mobile games, …)
In 2007, we decided we want to do one open mobile project for everybody so we have created service, where anybody can create mobile website. We launched the service in October 2007. Till that, we gained about 2000 registered users and they created more than 4000 mobile pages.
Now just create your first mobile site by typing in your blog URL and selecting “Mobilize blog” button on WireNode’s home page.

The service can automatically detect your blog feed and you’ll be asked to create (sub) domain name for mobile version in form of “???.wirenode.mobi”.

If the domain name is still available, it will redirect you to simple registration form. After register your user name/password, you can login to the site management (that looks like a Google’s service site, I perceive). Actually, at this step your mobile site has been ready to run unless you want to change default settings as the following steps.
Click “Settings” link to get into site general settings; change “Language” and “Category” of your site and click “Save settings” button to finish.


On editor tab, your home page should be there with blog title, sub-title and a RSS widget in default theme. You can change theme up to color tone of your blog, add additional pages/components etc. I’ll let you discover all functionality but I’m sure that everything can be done with a few clicks only.

For my mobile site, I changed theme to “Matrix“, added a logo to home page and created “About” page then click “Publish” button on left panel - all done in less than 5 minutes. Here is how mobile version of my blog looks like on a (fake) phone. Not too bad, right?

The last step you should do is to promote your site by adding promotion widget to original blog (or to your Facebook, MySpace, Hi5… profiles) . You can find my widget at bottom of right sidebar.
This is NOT a paid review; I just like WireNode for its simplicity and effectiveness. Thank Tomas and the team for great service!
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11 Responses for "Mobilizing Your Blog in 5 Minutes"
Thanks for this post… I myself have set one up for myself… However, I noticed that you’re mobile button isn’t showing up on Firefox… though, it’s showing on IE… is there any way to fix this?
By the way, Stumbled this as well… great post and i’ll be adding your site to my bookmarks…
cheers,
Armand
Thanks for the quick response… I checked my FF and it’s exactly the same version as yours and I still can’t see your widget…
By the way, I emailed you a graphic copy of what your site looks like (in PDF file) and hope that this may help you.
As far as I know, I don’t have any IP restrictions but if I do, do you know how I can fix this?
Also, I haven’t added the widget yet to my site (still in progress) but will do as soon as it’s ready.
Hope this helps.
cheers,
Armand
Please try to disable Greasemonkey add-on or any add-on like “Ad Block”, “Stop Script” etc. and check if JavaScript is enabled in FF (open FF Options dialog and at tab “Content”, check “Enable JavaScript”).
Hope this works.
That worked a treat! Thanks for that… I’ve uninstalled “greasemonkey” and “adblock plus” off firefox… and javascript had been enabled beforehand…
but now, it’s still not showing your google ads… dunno what else to do from here…
thanks again by the way.
cheers,
Armand
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