I'm interested in whatever you come up with.

I've not got as far as serious planning, but I was wondering if it might be possible to just use a separate skin for a mobile site.

That way the same actual modules get served up to both full size and mobile browsers. The skin could turn off 'frills' areas for the mobile users.

DNN does not have a configuration based way of serviing different skins to different users, but I'm wondering about using the basis of Will Strohl's blog post (http://www.willstrohl.com/Blog/PostId/668/Dynamically-Change-DotNetNuke-Skins-by-Security-R) to issue a skin cookie to mobile users.

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Best wishes,
- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk

Mobinuke replaces the skin depending on the client being served. Another option is the core mobile soluition -this was previously a PE/EE only feature but we backported it and it's now available to everyone with the 6.1.5 release (see http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/B... for more details) - you can use this to redirect requests to different pages, each of which can obviously have their own look & feel and content.

As for the content, if it is the same you can make a copy of a page easily http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as... and have the content set as a refence so editing it in one location updates it in all the references - you can do the same with individual modules http://hive.dotnetnuke.com/Default.as... - in many cases this will probably fit your needs, but one thing to be aware of is that sometimes content is not always approriate for all devices e.g. a 20 item list is fine for desktop but a mobile client should show less entries. In some cases the module settings will allow for you to make these changes and in a few cases modules that support templating will allow this, but in others this is not possible e.g. the html module will show all content for all instances. I think that now the mobile capabilities are in all versions it's probable we can make some changes to better support these cases e.g. a simple enhancement to the html module might just show 200 characters of text followed by a "read more..." link for a mobile client. I don't believe any enhancements have been created for this yet, so if you've any good ideas I recommend logging them at support.dotnetnuke.com

Thanks.

 

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