Strategy For Making A Mobile Version Of A EPiServer Site?
Feb 16, 2011
I am about to a client develop a mobile version of their EPiServer site. The mobile version should have different functionality than the regular but some content might be shared so that it won't have be maintained twice.
I'm thinking about using jQuery Mobile as the user interface system to reach as many users as possible with the same solution and possibly 51degrees.mobi for best detection of mobile devices.
Does anyone have any experience in how to do this with EPiServer? How to structure? I'm thinking of using a sub-node (/mobile) that gets hidden on the regular site but I'm not sure it's the best solution.
I haven't done anything with mobile devices and was just asked to create a mobile version of one of our sites. Is there anything specific to .net for this? I'm not sure where to start.
And i want to make it mobile phone web, such that user can use it through his / her cell phone. I don't have any knowledge about XML And also i don't have knowledge of .NET. How can I do this?
creating a mobile version of the website I have created in WebMatrix. I have created the website and the email form and the data input forms and all seems to work ok with the SQL Server Compact 4 database, but I now want to create a version to run on my smartphone (it's a htc hd2 running windows mobile 6.5.3, though I think I may have to produce it to run on windows mobile 7 -feel free to comment).
There are some good tutorials out there for WebMatrix generally but I have yet to find anything covering the scenario above.
The other query relates to deploying the WebMatrix site. I know there is webhosting offered on WebMatrix, but I can't find a simple guide to what spec to be looking for in any package offering webhosting. (poor student looking for cheapest offer for trialling practise sites) I think I have come to the conclusion that if they offer Microsoft ASP.NET 4 then that should be ok for the Razor syntax and cope with the cshtml, and that at the basic level I am working at I don't need an SQL database as part of the hosting package as the compact travels as a file with the rest of the site.
Pretend i have an existing web-site, e.g.:[URL]i now want to expose a mobile version of this web-site:
m.stackoverflow.com IIS, with its host-header name resolution, would normally require two web-sites to be created: www.stackoverflow.com m.stackoverflow.com
Except now i have two web-sites in IIS. This means i have to duplicate code/files between them. i don't need to (nor do i want to) duplicate all the "model" and "controller" code between two web-sites. i would much rather have one web-site that exposes a mobile version.
i could have the default page in m.stackoverflow.com simply perform a redirect to a mobile landing page on the "real" web-site:
I have a existing web site which is developed in Asp.Net / AJAX 3.5, C#, Now I need to make this site available in Mobile version.. and I came across an open source tool [URL]
But I am not sure How do I integrate.. this in my existing application...
Also my site is running in godaddy shared hosting server..
I currently have a ASP.NET web application that was designed for desktops/laptops. Now we need a mobile version of this application. I have never developed mobile application before and am looking for any good tips before i start. Things that i have been thinking about like how do you know when load the mobile version or the normal version.
I have googled this topic and found lots of solutions like
[URL] .... [URL] ....
But still I am confused how to start. I have made some asp.net websites in which i was applying JQuery, Ajax, webservices this technology. Now i want to make that website in a lighter mobile version(windows phone, android phone, tablet, iphone, other mobile device).
I have an existing web application developed in Asp.Net F/W 3.5 and a mobile version of the same need to be created.
May i have some suggestions on:
How can i start with?.Some links & sites that would give me more clarity on how to approach this requirement. Is there any ASP.Net/iis features or Visual Studio option that ease this mobile version creation? As there are RadControls & Ajax used throughout the application, what should i be careful about? Will it require every form in the UI to be replaced and take the same time as the old UI creation? What all thinks should i be considering in the performance/optimization point of view?.
i have developed a mobile version of a website which using ajax and displays at 100% width via css.this displays and works fine on the HTC phones, i have a few issues below, i have read a few post saying you can preset the phones browser settings do you know how i can fix the problems below?iphone - my css width is 100% the iphone is scaling the site to a very small versionblackberry - ajax is not working
this is my css for the mobile version I was just wondering how I can change the size of the textboxes for the mobile version to make them smaller but don't change on the computer version? if you go here on the mobile version youll see what I mean URL... the code for the form is inside this class tag.
<section class="left-col"> </secion>
PHP Code:
/*--------MEDIA!!!-----------*/@media screen and (max-width: 478px){ body{ font-size: 13px; }}@media screen and (max-width: 740px){ nav { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px; } nav ul{ list-style: none; margin: 0 auto; padding-left: 0px; } nav ul li{ text-align: center; margin-left: 0 auto; width: 100%; border-top: 1px solid #878E63;
These days I started new ground in learning intellectual website for example I want to understand the number and name and type of tables and columns and make button and interface of website with all aspx and cs and classes and to cut long story short blank solution and sth like this but i do not know where I should start .I prefer to have suggestion of some good books whith functional example I searched in alot of website but I could not find anything ,now i am about losing my time and energy
I have my website created on asp.net and upgraded to 3.5.Now I need provide mobile site to some customer, I have no idea where to start. It seems the asp.net support on mobile web site is not quite clear. There are some introduce and guide, but they are not clear and some links are broken.I just want a most easy way to create a mobile version of my web site,
I need to make my site work well on a blackberry, i haven't put too much effort into getting this working yet, but i have a few questions which google is struggling with.I've read about detecting brower type and modifying the default behaviour of asp.net controls hereHow would I go about supplying a differant stylesheet to a specific browser, should i just do this?
This will work fine, but i feel like there is a better method, i'm sure i've read about something in the past but i can't seem to recall.I'm also considering a response.redirect to a differant page for a blackberry, which at the moment i would implemenet in a similar way.
At our company we are going to develop more for the Windows platform than we have done up until now. As this scale of Windows development is new to us it would be nice with some feedback from experienced developers. Requirements we have: 5 developers from the beginning. 15 developers a year from now. All developers should be able to develop at the same time. Be able to develop solution for ASP.NET and EpiServer 5. Our idea:
A shared server which developers use for development through Terminal Services. SQL Server Express. Start with some free express edition of Visual Studio, upgrade to a commercial version if we need the additional features. Use IIS and not the web server built into Visual Studio. Questions:
Are we on the right track?
In terms of license costs the above should be cheapest, right?
What do you think about multiple developers doing development using a shared TS-server?
Do you know of any company which has a similar development environment?
Are we going to miss some features of the full Visual Studio version immediately? Is using Express version a bad choice? Is IIS the best choice? If use IIS the developers may use the same port for deployment. If we use the built in web server each one has to set their own port as we're sharing a machine.
Comment answer: We are thinking about a shared server as it will most likely decrease the license costs. So it's purely a cost issue. We are using CVS for version control. Our situation is that we develop on Mac and Linux, that's why buying 1 server license + Visual Studio licenses seems to be a cost effective way of starting this type of development.
I have developed a small website which is working on SQL server.. And also found Deployment process which is working well in my system. But my actual need is when I am deploying a project there should be some time limit to work that particular application like a trial version to give demonstration to others.
I have a framework 2.0 asp.net website, I want to change it's framework version to 3.5. Is it possible to do this manually from web.config file? I don't want to change from visual studio property pages. I need to change from web.config, what should I do?
After seeing the Hanselman "You are doing it wrong" video I start to use the Web Publish feature of VS2010.
What I'm really missing is that the websites sometimes gives errors while the site is publishing because the feature does not copy the app_offline.htm file to the server.
I do not want to start using MSDeploy scripts, because I have several sites and want to keep it simple.
Maybe there is a simple tweak to tell the wizard to copy and then delete the file.
The url stays the same for the french, english, polish, spanish, italian versions of the site since the content is located in seperate .resx files. and the code stays the same for all.
I need search engines to see all versions of my site.
And I need to stay on the same domain for all languages. No subdomains.
I've got a [PageDefinitionTypePlugIn] PropertyString (it's a dropdownlist), and I'd like to be able to detect what it's parent page is. Generally, Global.EPDataFactory.CurrentPage works fine to return the page, but when a NEW page is being created, CurrentPage returns null.I need to know prior to the render of the control what the parent is, since I'm changing the list of values in the dropdown depending on where the current page is in the navigation heirarchy structure.
There is an existing asp.net 2.0 app on an IIS 6 server. I need to add a feature/page to this site (third party app, don't have source code). I'm creating my tool in VS targeting dotnet 4. For end user convenience I need my tool to be available within the same url namespace as this .net 2.0 app. I assumed I would just create a new virtual directory within this existing app to put my app. But I hadn't thought about the different framework versions.... the web server does have v 4 installed. So can I create my virtual directory and host my v4 tool there, within the v2 website?
I am trying to start a new mobile web application project but cannot find the mobile page template originally available on VS 2005, nor can I get the mobile web controls to display in the toolbox even though I have then all selected in the tool-> select toolbox items why? and what can I do?
