Google is taking its battle with Wordpress to the next level with the introduction of mobile optimized blogs. Undoubtedly Wordpress is the supreme full-featured blogging platform when compared to Google’s Blogger but Blogger is closing that gap by adding lots of features this year. Some of the cool features introduced this year include static pages, real-time stats, dynamic template, spam filtering, etc. The latest addition to that pack is Mobile templates (Available only in Beta). Enabling this feature will offer a mobile optimized version of your blog.
How to enable mobile templates
- Open http://blogger.com from your browser. Go to the dashboard. It will list all your blogs.
- A popup will appear asking you to enable Mobile templates. Click on “Turn on mobile templates”
- Alternately, you can click on the “Settings” option of the blog and go to the tab “Email & Mobile” to enable / disable the mobile templates.
- You can access the mobile version by pointing your mobile browser to “<blog_address>/?m=1” (Ex: http://blog.varunkumar.me/?m=1). QR code for the same will be shown as soon as you enable the mobile templates.
How to setup a custom sub-domain
- After enabling the mobile template, you may want to setup a custom sub-domain to point to the mobile version. Most of the sites use m. as the sub-domain.
- You can achieve this by setting up an URL forwarding from your domain manager. If you have bought the domain from godaddy.com, you can follow the instructions here.
- Add sub-domain ‘m’ and forward it to your mobile blog address.
- Now, share this mobile address with your readers.
Actually, you don't have to create a sub-domain at all. When users visit the actual address of your blog, they automatically get re-directed to the mobile version (while, this is possible only on Web Kit browsers).
ReplyDeleteBut, putting up a redirection for m.name.com is a good idea since some users might expect the mobile version to be there. :)