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
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