Local Portal was heavily updated!
Local Portal has gone through some major updates. If you don’t know what Local Portal is, let me explain. Local Portal is a mobile site builder for those with a geo .mobi domain, for example: renonevada.mobi. Local Portal is a paid service ( $89.99 a year, for unlimited sites ), that creates an site for you instantly. This site includes a Forum, Business Listings, Classifieds, Local Events, and more.
You can see more at http://www.localportal.mobi
Saturday.mobi – Free Mobile Business Advertising in the USA
Attention Restaurants / Bars / and Local Attractions.
Saturday.mobi has been in development for the past year. It’s finally in a beta phase, and if you own a business in the USA, here is your chance to get free mobile media advertising.
If the first question that comes to mind is “What the heck is a dot mobi?” then let me explain it this way…dot com (.com) is for your PC while dot mobi (.mobi) is for your mobile phone. Unlike “Apps”, .mobi sites work on any mobile phone with an Internet browser. That said, back to our message from last week…
Free Mobile Web Templates & More!
The mobile web is still very new, and there aren’t that many ‘free’ resources out there. I offer may paid products at my other site, Scripter.mobi, but just recently I have added 3 mobile templates. These templates are free for you to use, as long as you leave the footer link intact.
Scripter.mobi is also offering mobile web development credits, to be used for xHTML, CSS, PHP or MySQL work. You can purchase these credits at a discounted price of $50 per credit, saving you $25 off of each credit.
Adding a Google Map Image to your Mobile Website
I get many people asking how to put an image of a Google Map on their mobile website. This is a very easy task to do, and I will explain how.
DevelopMy.mobi back up
DevelopMy.mobi is back up and running. After nearly a year of down time, we are slowly pickup up new clients. If you are looking for mobile web development at a great cost, check out www.developmy.mobi
ExchangeRates.mobi is now live
I just read about ExchangeRates.mobi being released by the Mobility.mobi owner, Andres Kello. Andres has developed many useful sites just like this, including the FreeDictionary, and the FreeTranslation.
Here is his post from Mobility:
Hi Folks,
I just finished ExchangeRates.mobi, a domain I bought from a member here a week ago.
This is another very useful and highly versatile site. It can convert between 173 currencies, including precious metals and obsolete currencies (e.g. old European currencies, pre-Euro).
“Exchange Rates” has 1 million exact searches per month on Google, so it’s in demand, particularly from travelers, which is what drove me to build it, especially since I could not find a fast, free, and user-friendly exchange rate and currency converter site for mobiles (if you can’t find it, build it!).
Like most of the mobile sites I develop, it has some neat URL tricks which make mobile access a lot faster since the forms can be skipped altogether:
Quick View: To quickly view the most common exchange rates for a particular currency, you can simply use its 3-letter code directly in the URL preceded by a slash like this:
Quick FX Rate: To quickly view an exchange rate for a pair of currencies, you can simply pair their 3-letter codes up in the URL with a dash like this:
http://ExchangeRates.mobi/USD-EUR
Quick Convert: To quickly convert an amount between currencies, you can skip the form at the bottom and go straight to the converted amount via the URL by following the currency pairs with a slash and an amount like this:http://ExchangeRates.mobi/USD-EUR/143.78
Customize: To customize ExchangeRates.mobi and view your selected exchange rates, you can pair them all up in the URL separated by slashes like this:http://ExchangeRates.mobi/USD-EUR/EUR-GBP/BRL-CNY
You can then BOOKMARK that page for quick access to your custom list. No login or cookies required.
The drop-down menus are also pre-sorted with quick access to the 14 most traded currencies plus the 4 BRIC currencies.
I’ve designed the site without tables for maximum compatibility across all mobiles and it scores a 5/5 as usual.
Please browse through it (particularly on non-iPhone’s) and let me know what you think.
For Questions, Comments or Concerns you can post on his thread at Mobility.mobi
.mobi – The best kept secret on the mobile web.
New Mobile Template Launched
I’m pleased to announce the release of CharBroil, a mobile friendly template that scores a 5/5 on ready.mobi. This template comes with 5 pages (Home, About Us, Contact Us, Directions, and Portfolio). The contact page features a fully functional contact form.
You can order this template through Scripter.mobi for only $39.99!
Click here for a Preview | Click here to order on Scripter.mobi
Many more to come!
A look into the Mobile Adult World
Lately I’ve been stumbling across alot of Adult .mobi’s being developed around users uploading photos/videos of themselves to spark up conversation with other members. I don’t consider these to be full “porn” sites, as it’s all user generated, and that’s one of the main tools to drive in more members. The more content the users post, the more interested other members are. Mobile Porn sites offer memberships to download videos/photos, but no direct contact with the people being featured in the content. Please, if you are offended by adult content, please do not read any further.
Using Twitter with PHP to automatically post tweets
This is a cool little trick I used on my new site, Surl Mobile Bookmarks. Basically whenever someone adds a new bookmark, I want it to be tweeted. I searched around the web, and found an easy code snippet, that works like a charm.
For my site, when someone adds a bookmark, it posts their site title, description, and keywords into my database, and then adds it to the home page. While that code is happening, I simply use this Twitter PHP code to send the tweet.
