Make your drupal site mobile with www.OSMOBI.com

Posted by Jrddobbe on February 5, 2010 at 2:02pm

Hello,

OSMOBI is an on-line tool that can make your Drupal website mobile. (www.osmobi.com)

It’s easy, does not take a lot of time, works for every mobile device and once your mobile site is online, you don’t need to adapt it anymore!
And most important ;o) it’s free!
It's fun to play with: make an account, install the module in your back-end. Go back to the osmobi site and there Osmobi will propose a mobile version of your website. If you want to change some things, no prob: you can easily do this with the edit functions. Then click launch and you have a great mobile site!

Great advantage is that Osmobi detects with which mobile device the mobile visitor is browsing and then adapts your mobile website according the used mobile! You don't need to make multiple mobile templates thanks to Osmobi!!

There is a premium version available which has more features and more pageviews (MB) per day. The free version is limited till 150 pageviews. If you have more mobile visitors, the mobile site becomes inactive (and your normal site becomes active again) till the end of the day… The day afterwards the mobile version is online again. And for those who make money it’s only 45$ / month.

We are always open for feedback and advice.
Do not hesitate to post your impressions!

Have fun with it!
The OSMOBI team

Comments

If you like a mobile version

Posted by stijnbe on February 5, 2010 at 2:11pm

If you like a mobile version of your drupal website. You should definitely try osmobi. It's easy to use and the result is very nice and customizable.

grtz

Stijn

All Drupal Themes are running

Posted by webtomme on November 14, 2010 at 11:36am

All Drupal Themes are running on T3 Framework, which has a default layout for iPhone and handheld. The latter supports most of popular mobile browsers. When developing your content just choose the layout profile and T3 will take care for it.

You can check out T3 Blank Theme or JD Purity, both are free.

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Recommendation

Posted by daften on February 5, 2010 at 2:13pm

A definite recommendation, easy install and website, quick and nice result.

Easy to use

Posted by DieterVDW on February 5, 2010 at 3:25pm

Osmobi makes it easy to make a mobile site: install the module, create an account and you've got a basic mobile website with the content of your live site. Spend a few minutes polishing it and you have a really nice mobile website.

Be aware that you "copy" your content to a foreign domain

Posted by Airport1 on February 16, 2010 at 12:01pm

Be aware that by using this module you "copy" your content as "mobile content" to a foreign domain. Furthermore if there is much traffic you have to pay.
If you want it easy, you can use it. But if you want to keep your content on your site, then better reflect what the pros and the cons are. Better think twice ;)

Foreign domain

Posted by twom on February 16, 2010 at 3:20pm

Hi Aurport1,

Thank you for the feedback. As developer at Siruna (who is creating OSMOBI) I just wanted to jump in regarding the copying of your content to a mobile domain.
As a service that transcodes your website to optimize for mobile, we process your desktop site in real time and adjust it for the device that is accessing your mobile site. This means that our servers fetch the content from your original sites and transform it (so, we never store a copy of your desktop site). The transcoding involves among other things:
- images are resized according to screen size
- Android device get's a different navigation structure and better skin
- iphone's also get a different navigation structure and better skin
- we apply the styling changes you have made in OSMOBI.

By consequence mobile visitors have to go through our servers with a 'foreign domain' to access the content. A mobile user who visits your normal desktop site will be seamlessly redirected to that mobile domain (so he never has to type this domain in his browser).

In our premium version we allow you to create a CNAME that points to our servers, so you can use you own domain (price for premium is 45$/month - see http://www.osmobi.com/content/offer)

However, this being a forum I would be glad to get your input on our offer (so we can adjust it to the taste of our users!)

Thank you for the feedback!

Tom

This looks VERY interesting.

Posted by tinem on February 17, 2010 at 9:31am

This looks VERY interesting. Could it be used with Google Maps API too?

I have made this testsite http://www.tinemuller.dk/test_drupal/ but without using any map modules just Google Maps API code and CCK content and so working together and I think it looks great and was what I wanted from the start but couldn't find any module to do this.

Would it be possible to show my site or maybe only this first map with radius which would be ok on a mobilephone?

Can no one help with this

Posted by tinem on February 23, 2010 at 6:17am

Can no one help with this question? Have no one used it with Google Maps API?

Google Maps

Posted by twom on February 23, 2010 at 1:10pm

Hi,

Better Google Maps support is on our roadmap. Currently OSMOBI will disable all javascript from you site, meaning that google maps that rely on js will not be displayed.

However if you use plain images, this will be no problem.

Another trick could be is to put in your website just a link to google maps. This way on the mobile site you will have the link to google maps and on several devices, clicking a google maps link will open the Google Maps application on the phone!

Regards,
Tom

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Posted by picxelplay on May 6, 2010 at 9:19pm

I would suggest Mobify.me, or wait for JoomlArt's JD Purity free theme to roll out (which should be pretty much any day now). Out of the box it has mobile support, and is pretty great I have to say. I have used JoomlArt's mobile theme for Joomla websites. So I expect it will be quality for Drupal when it is made available. I have also used Mobify.me, and have had great results, as well as they are well respected.

I had to put my two cents in because this thread seemed to be a lot more about promotion, then about non-biased information.

http://picxelplay.com

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Let's add more non biased information

Posted by UMG on May 12, 2010 at 7:28pm

Picxelplay, I appreciate your input. Can anyone else add pros and cons to this discussion? It seems like there are a lot of strong ways to do make your site mobile, with OSMOBI being one. I'll also check out Mobify.me.

Other ways to do this? Pros, cons?

OSMOBI went out of business on June 15, 2010

Posted by happysnowmantech on June 28, 2010 at 7:09pm

I came across this thread while searching for mobile solutions, so I thought I would post the notice from www.osmobi.com here:

Dear User of OSMOBI

The OSMOBI service has been set up based on a funding arrangement for the development of a mobilization software for Drupal, Joomla and other Open Source CMS systems. However, the funding for the project has ceased and we are sorry that the service cannot be continued.

OSMOBI will stay up and running until June 15, 2010, 12.00 Brussels time. At that moment, the OSMOBI team will have to close down the service.

We also have to mention that from now onwards, june 01, 2010, no support can be guaranteed anymore.

If any party is interested in continuing the OSMOBI service, please contact Prof F. Gielen, University of Ghent, Belgium using contact@osmobi.com .

The OSMOBI Team