Mike’s Two Minute Mobile Web Hack

Mike Davidson, fellow Seattleite and CEO of Newsvine, has a handy tutorial on making your website mobile device-friendly in just a couple minutes. His approach, in contrast to the potentially unsupported approach of using ‘mobile device web standards,’ makes extensive use of server-side rules and code to pummel your website into a format that even the most braindead mobile web browser can render.

Step 0: Follow standard guidelines for separating presentation from content using XHTML and CSS (duh).
Step 1: Create a domain mirror
Step 2: Create a global prepend function
Step 3: Create a global append function
Step 4: Enable global use of these prepend and append functions with .htaccess.

Snazzy stuff, and how often do you find a CEO who can still hack code with the best of them?

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