First try at a mobile website

[Ardbeg... innit]

I am in the beta stages of my first effort at a mobile version of an existing website.

As Webmaster of the Great Lakes Curling Association, I have been wanting to do this for a while.

With this in mind, I restructured the site at the previous link a few weeks back. It needed it anyway, but the restructure made the mobile design go a lot faster.

The mobile site glca.gomo.pro/ can be viewed from a regular computer, but looks better on a smartphone.

I managed to transfer MOST of the website info onto the mobile version, some just didnt make sense trying.

If you are interested, I would appreciate a critique of the mobile site (I know that's going balls out around this place), and any thoughts on how it could be improved before it goes totally public.

When it does go public, it will share the same url as the traditional site. When someone goes to the site it will figure out whether the request is coming from a mobile device or a computer and send it to the proper code.

[Irish Stu]

It's nice and clean and functional which is what you want/need from a smart-phone version of a website. Good job.

A couple of the links though don't open the page/section you are expecting straight away... for instance when you click the top link 'GLCA News' I get a sub-menu that says 'Text Link' which I had to click to proceed.

Apart from little glitches it's very nice though might be nice to use the banner from the website to add a little more life to the home page.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

I had the same experience as Simon with the GLCA News, but when I clicked the Text Link, I got a page that didn't appear to be formatted for mobile browsers because the text was too small to read.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

BTW, what are you using for User Agent Detection? Is there a server-side PHP script running?

[Ardbeg... innit]

This is a volunteer thing for me. Since I dont get paid to do it, I figured that I should try to re-use as many assets for the website onto the mobile site. Hence the heavy reliance on downloadable PDF's for a lot of content that is, in general static.

The GLCA News is decidedly not static during the curing season. I too had my doubts about that particular implementation. The link basically calls up an html, the same one that issued on the website, where an in-line frame controls the formatting. Obviously, that attempted stretched credulity and requires a rework.

When it comes time to fully implement, yes there will be a server side script running at the head tag.

Regarding the banner. The one thing I have found in doing this is that the common precepts for a website dont necessarily apply on a mobile site. I tried to bring in the banner from the website, and no matter what I did, it looked like crap. I may eventually do a redesign for the mobile site, but for right now, the organization logo fits in nicely without a lot of clutter.

Thanks for the feedback!!