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"An elegant, self-detecting technical solution is not in reach of the everyday small business owner or individual." (Neil Edwards on 04/10/2006)

In an ideal world, the client-side device type would direct the type of page served, but that is not how things have evolved.

The fact is the majority of the 80 plus million sites across the web do not work well on mobile devices and do not detect device type before redirecting you. (.mobi blog on 11/07/06)

Unfortunately, the folks at .mobi continue by stating that they've solved these problems by selling you yet another domain, when in fact, the problems would still exist after you buy a .mobi domain name.

MobileWebDeveloper.com not only serves to provide you with mobile Web solutions, but also tips, and suggestions on how to best plan your mobile site. In the coming weeks, I'll add a forum for developers, marketers and executives to interact and discuss mobile Web development. The forums will also provide users of MobileRedirect and MobileLaunch to interact and share how they've advanced the products.

I'll be making these two products available under a 'dual license':

• GNU General Public License - Open source developers and projects
• Commercial Software License: No Restrictions or requirements on use or distribution of our software in derivative works.

I hope to have both products launched in the next two weeks, until then, read the descriptions below and visit the site for more information.

MobileRedirect

Add MobileRedirect to your website, and use your current Web address as your Mobile address. It's easier for people to remember, and easier for you to promote. MobileRedirect provides a simple solution for detecting and redirecting mobile devices on your website. Available in multiple programming languages, takes a minute to setup and available as shareware, give it try!

MobileLaunch

With MobileLaunch, you can get your mobile website online today. It's a mobile site template system with multiple skins to choose from. Simply add your content, set 6 settings, install our included MobileRedirect code on your current Website, and you're live.

About the subject of this post: while I do not think there is any need for .mobi, and I feel the world should simply ignore .mobi's existence, you can definately use a .mobi name with MobileRedirect and MobileLaunch. Especially when you consider that my solutions are based around your current domain name and redirecting the initial request to your mobile site. Once the initial request is redirected, the URL of the actual mobile site could be: m.mySite.com, mobile.mySite.com, or even mySite.mobi - it's up to you. Just don't believe the hype, you still need a redirection setup on your current site, as most people will still use your .com address.

In conclusion, I'm not really fighting against .mobi, and I'll look over their style guides to make sure the generated code from MobileLaunch fits with their 'rules' - chances are, it already does since I'm currently generating 100% valid xHTML-MP, and supporting multiple header/content types (not all mobile devices can accept the same DocType or ContentType). I do want to say thank you to .mobi for making me angry, which in turn caused me to proclaim that I was going to provide these solutions back in April of this year. What's funny about this, is that the same thing happened back in 1999 with mp3.com. They kept changing things on the indie artists, making the expierence there more frustrating than fun. After a few months of that, I decided to build what is not ArtistServer.com . So now you know - if you want me to build something, just piss me off. :)