Take a look next time you're on public transport, or waiting at the airport. Users are consuming your content on mobile.
In fact, our stats suggest that over 250,000 users per month are accessing sites via mobile, and that 9% of users accounts for about 2.5% of aggregated network traffic. We know that rendering sites for mobile will see percentage of network traffic rise, as users will now be more inclined to click through pages if they render properly on their phone.
So what do you need to do?!
Actually, you don't need to do anything to make this work. But what you can do is promote this feature to your members. We've got a couple of tips to get you going:
How do we get there? (Promote your site)
There is no change to URL's (web addresses) with this change. So, if you have your own web address pointing to an SP site, simply promote that. Put up a link at your stadium, or your clubrooms telling people to find your news, events, photos and fixture details on your mobile website.
If you don't have a web address, there are 2 things you can do..
a/ Buy a domain name.
We don't promote anyone specifically here, literally just go to your search engine and type 'Buy a domain name'. You'll be given a number of sites that sell.
Examples in our network would be:
www.geelongbasketball.com.au
www.touchwest.com
Think of a couple of options for your club or league; register and then have it direct into your current site.
b/ Use a free sportingpulse.net domain.
Pretty simple. You can activate these via your Website Admin - here's how to do it
This enhancement underpins our goal of making best of breed technology available to SportingPulse administrators and users. Hundreds of hours of research and devel has gone into this change, something that we hope you see as a valuable addition to your suite of SP Products.
this is awesome
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ReplyDeleteI tried to use the new mobile site last night to update our live scores from the grounds but had trouble once in to the content manager to double click or right click to get in to the edit mode
Can you help
Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteLive score is available from m.sportingpulse.com - there are 2 admin links at the bottom; one called 'Mobile Scoring'.
If your league / club is set up for this, you'll be able to use this feature easily. Let us know if you need more detail on this..
This only seems to work if you use absolutely bulk standard pages on your Web site.
ReplyDeleteIf you do any customisation on pages (e.g. an inline picture) then the rendering engine won't pick this up and the page will still be presented in full width on a mobile device.
So a nice idea, but the end result is severe limitations on presenting customised content in a site.
Hi Anon,
DeleteThanks for the input. However, generally if you look at mobile infrastructures we are not trying to replicate every page on your site in a mobile environment. If you're talking about a table that is 30 columns wide, the fact is no-one can render that - unless we zoom / compact.
However, what we have achieved for you at no cost is the ability for all your news, results, stats and EVERY other template mobile rendered. If you have built a custom HTML page, that's great - but as you say, won't automatically render.
As to severe limitations, in this case, I'd say that's an overstatement, as you're more likely talking about one or 2 pages on a site. Check out the AFL, and other sporting code's mobile site and compare what we've brought to grassroots sport in Australia. The work we've done on mobile here is groundbreaking in the Australian sport space.
Lets just say on the Mobile site, i go to "Full view" or whatever it is, where's the link to go back to the Mobile View?
ReplyDeleteNeeds to be rather obvious.
Hi Jason,
DeleteI tend to agree - and we need to work on the link back from full to mobile if you do hit the 'full view' button.
We'll take a look at your points.
Thanks, Andrew
Tried the mobile site on my Samsung Galaxy. All good except I can't seem to download PDF files from the website. Error message "Download Unsuccessfull" in les than 5 seconds. I could download the same file from another website with no problems.
ReplyDeleteUsing ThinkFree to view and edit files.
Hi there - we haven't really looked at the provision of downloading PDF files via the mobile sites. If you have been able to this via the full sites in the past, on each page there is a 'full site' button that will allow you to perform the task in the browser as you have done in the past.
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