Just a quick note for smartphone owners – I’ve added a mobile-friendly low-bandwidth plugin to the site, so if you visit with your mobile browser the site should look much better than before. I went to a mobile phone shop this evening after work and surfed here on a demo Xperia, and I was very pleasantly surprised at how nice it looked!
The plugin is WPtouch.
Just a small note that I’ve edited the mobile theme so that the layout resembles the desktop site more closely, specifically in the colour department. I’ve also done a few behind-the-scenes tweaks that might make Read more…
By the way, to comply with an EU directive, you now get a message at the bottom of the screen telling you that I use cookies. It seems rather pointless to me, but Google requires Read more…
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2 Comments
Janne · November 27, 2010 at 00:07
It does indeed look much nicer than before. You should almost consider adopting a similar theme for the real site layout.
Of course, I’ve read your site on my phone for a long time already, through the RSS feed. Overall, RSS is a godsend for phones. Since the layout is minimal almost any site looks good there, and as the reader caches content I always have something to read on the train or wherever.
DerekNobuyuki Wallace · November 29, 2010 at 00:42
Oh, I didn’t say earlier on twitter that I was also trying it out on Xperia’s Mobile Chrome browser for Android.