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Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes. After checking out B. Adam Howell’s excellent IYHY.com site a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might be a good idea to write a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong. The fact of the matter is that the state of HTML rendering in the wireless world is all over the map right now. What’s really needed until HTML/CSS/JS support is improved in mobile devices is a little server-side filtering. And you know what? Four easy steps Outlined below are the four steps to get this done in a matter of minutes, provided you are in an Apache environment and can run PHP. Step 1: Set up a domain mirror Step 2: Create global_prepend file Changes all URLs to “mobile”-ized URLs.

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