Comments on: A Good Mobile Wordpress Solution http://www.ricochehost.com/2009/07/25/a-good-mobile-wordpress-solution/ Ricochehost Premium Blog Hosting Solutions Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:54:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Jim Atwood http://www.ricochehost.com/2009/07/25/a-good-mobile-wordpress-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Jim Atwood Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:13:18 +0000 http://www.ricochehost.com/?p=246#comment-32 Thank you James. Yes the plugin is awesome. What I like most is how easy it is to install, setup, and get running. This gives me more time to add content and/or customize things. I did try other solutions available for Wordpress, but in the end I chose the Mobile Pack simply because it had me up and running in about a minute. Thank you James. Yes the plugin is awesome. What I like most is how easy it is to install, setup, and get running. This gives me more time to add content and/or customize things. I did try other solutions available for Wordpress, but in the end I chose the Mobile Pack simply because it had me up and running in about a minute.

]]> By: Jim Atwood http://www.ricochehost.com/2009/07/25/a-good-mobile-wordpress-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Jim Atwood Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:10:10 +0000 http://www.ricochehost.com/?p=246#comment-31 Another quick point. The .mobi domain is really not that popular in Japan. Most people use .com or .jp for their domains. Businesses use .co.jp or .net.jp as well. Even today, I think you can get a lot of Japanese website company names in .mobi. Although I like .mobi, I personally think .jp is best in Japan because the extension is short. Another quick point. The .mobi domain is really not that popular in Japan. Most people use .com or .jp for their domains. Businesses use .co.jp or .net.jp as well. Even today, I think you can get a lot of Japanese website company names in .mobi. Although I like .mobi, I personally think .jp is best in Japan because the extension is short.

]]> By: Jim Atwood http://www.ricochehost.com/2009/07/25/a-good-mobile-wordpress-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jim Atwood Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:05:41 +0000 http://www.ricochehost.com/?p=246#comment-30 Most Japanese websites that I've seen indeed usually have two versions. It is also quite possible that the Japanese do have some sort of "excellent" method for browser detection. I am not sure about that. What I find advanced about it are several things, for example they seem to deploy effect Shift-JIS mobile sites which is important because that is the only "real" character set that the Japanese use here. UTF-8 and EUC-JP are just not that popular although they are used depending on the website solution. Another advanced concept is eCommerce. This is huge in Japan and everybody interested in a mobile website here in Japan seems to want a shopping system built. Although professional companies in Japan do custom coding, many small business are desperate for a Japanese Mobile eCommerce solution. There is a lot of money to be made in this area, but few if any solutions available. A wordpress, mobile, and ecommerce solution may be the ticket since all three would be easier to code in Shift-JIS. I am currently testing the possibilities. Another advancement is in Social networking with the phone. Sites such as mixi.jp and gree.jp are booming. Although you can register with a desktop, you MUST have a mobile to complete the registration. This is one of the reasons why Japanese websites have a high rate of mobile users....they don't allow registrations without a mobile phone. Many reports seem to neglect this point. In any event, Mobile is big in Japan of course, but the real mystery is how well the iPhone/Android concept will fair and what their response will be. Most Japanese websites that I've seen indeed usually have two versions. It is also quite possible that the Japanese do have some sort of “excellent” method for browser detection. I am not sure about that. What I find advanced about it are several things, for example they seem to deploy effect Shift-JIS mobile sites which is important because that is the only “real” character set that the Japanese use here. UTF-8 and EUC-JP are just not that popular although they are used depending on the website solution. Another advanced concept is eCommerce. This is huge in Japan and everybody interested in a mobile website here in Japan seems to want a shopping system built. Although professional companies in Japan do custom coding, many small business are desperate for a Japanese Mobile eCommerce solution. There is a lot of money to be made in this area, but few if any solutions available. A wordpress, mobile, and ecommerce solution may be the ticket since all three would be easier to code in Shift-JIS. I am currently testing the possibilities. Another advancement is in Social networking with the phone. Sites such as mixi.jp and gree.jp are booming. Although you can register with a desktop, you MUST have a mobile to complete the registration. This is one of the reasons why Japanese websites have a high rate of mobile users….they don't allow registrations without a mobile phone. Many reports seem to neglect this point. In any event, Mobile is big in Japan of course, but the real mystery is how well the iPhone/Android concept will fair and what their response will be.

]]> By: jamesgpearce http://www.ricochehost.com/2009/07/25/a-good-mobile-wordpress-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-29 jamesgpearce Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:20:30 +0000 http://www.ricochehost.com/?p=246#comment-29 Hi Jim - glad you like the plugin. Any feedback or suggestions, let us know ;-)<br><br><a href="http://www.assembla.com/spaces/wordpress-mobile-pack" rel="nofollow">http://www.assembla.com/spaces/wordpress-mobile...</a><br><br>All the best. Hi Jim – glad you like the plugin. Any feedback or suggestions, let us know ;-)

http://www.assembla.com/spaces/wordpress-mobile...

All the best.

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