: What do you consider a "mobile" device? I'm implementing a mobile-friendly version of our corporate web site and will be using WURFL to detect mobile browsers and redirect them to our mobile

@Sue5673885

As the definition of mobile in the way you're using it is really about screen resolution I'd use CSS media queries to select different stylesheets. This is a different approach to having a "mobile" version of your site, but with the proliferation of devices is going to be better in the long run. It also means that you don't have to maintain two versions of the site. Here's an example of using a media query:

<link rel='stylesheet' media='screen and (min-width: 701px) and (max-width: 900px)' href='css/medium.css' />

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@Welton855

@Chris : It depends. My laptop is a mobile device, my netbook and also my mobile phone.

On topic: What I would do is gather every gadget available on your corporate site and try to view your website with it. I have a 15inch laptop and a 10.1 inch netbook, which both can be considered standalone computers and not mobile devices. On the laptop my website looks perfect, but when I try to view it from the netbook a column gets shifted to the bottom of the website. Not good.

Do you have some analytics for your website? What are the resolutions of the devices which generally view your website?

I would get the top 5 or 10 resolutions and make the site optimized for them. If your tablet has a 10" resolution and you can see your website perfectly on it, why optimize? Maybe you could tweak a bit the site to be lighter in terms of graphics, but overall if you think your site doesn't need a mobile version for a particular gadget then don't make it. Will save time and you can do more important stuff.

Anyway, also make sure your mobile versions keep a lot of functionality and are not there for the sake of being there. Make some research before starting to digg into it.

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