First Mobile website

**gwpriester** · 15 June 2012, 04:59 PM

Giant thanks to Abi for the idea and for sharing her template. I translated our new eyeTricks website into a mobile site.

Scan the QR code with your smart phone and view the site in landscape orientation (sideways).

**gwpriester** · 19 June 2012, 01:29 AM

Have any of the 106 visitors to this thread been to the website? And if so, any comments?

**angelize** · 19 June 2012, 07:08 AM

I don't know about any of the other 105 but I don't happen to have a QR reader on my phone, because I try not to use it for the internet too much.

**xtom** · 19 June 2012, 07:58 AM

Qr code worked fine and the site displays fine for me in portrait and landscape too.

**gwpriester** · 19 June 2012, 12:42 PM

I personally think QR codes are butt ugly. But they are very effective on a device which is very difficult to enter a long URL.

QR codes are excellent for a Realator to place on a for sale sign so the person driving by the house for sale can scan the code and go to a mobile designed site with photos and info about the home.

**andymack** · 19 June 2012, 11:04 PM

Good job GW, this is something I have been looking for for a while, a way to create a site with Xara that looks OK on a mobile phone. This site is better than the one we looked at earlier from abi, that one kept sliding left and right, not 'locked' in that orientation. This one is the most promising yet, as it seems more 'locked' in portrait mode and fits nicely into my iPhone screen. One slight hiccup with the android version is that it needed a refresh or double tap to get the page to fit and then it was very slightly wide for the screen, and this was a big 4.5 incher, but nicely 'locked' again after that.
I checked the source-code to see that you used Xara before i got too excited, as I was always hoping there was a way to get Xara involved in my mobile site creation. The menu works very well too, it looks like a great introduction to mobile sites on my favo(u)rite (BRIT living in USA) forum. Thank you for sharing it with us most Emeritus Dude, Sir. ( Too much to ask for details? or is this just a project or would you sell the template to us?)

**steve.ledger** · 19 June 2012, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Have any of the 106 visitors to this thread been to the website? And if so, any comments?

I did scan your code on this page just to test it the other day.
The result is the same as your other thread on my Galaxy phone.

For those interested in what happens when you scan a QR code via an app on a smart phone: The app starts your phone camera, focuses on the image and reads it.
If it reads it clearly then the URL is shown and a button to go directly to it.

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**charliescoffee** · 24 June 2012, 12:15 AM

This site worked and looked excellent(ly) on my Android phone. The QR code took me right there, the drop-down menu worked perfectly, and the look is great. I'm very impressed. (I did notice one typo, forget which page but there is a "so" where there should be a "some" or something very similar.)

Maybe I missed it, but we really need a tutorial on mobile web sites. (Unless I missed a lot) this is a big hole in Xara's capabilities. I'm sure the pages can be easily designed using Xara but at least I need to know how to identify when a mobile device is viewing and redirecting tips etc.

Mobile sites are very quickly going to be the standard with usage far outpacing sites reached via a computer.

**andymack** · 25 June 2012, 12:40 PM

Looking at Gary's own website, now mobile, this is so close to being really usable, it just needs a double-tap to fit it onto the screen then it is perfect. It then stays locked in position in portrait mode and does not slide left or right. The whole thing is nearly perfect, if we can only avoid the initial double tap. I know we are in good hands with GW, if anyone can get Xara to do something, it will be him.