Creating mobile site version

[jschnyderite]

I need to make a mobile site and am looking for some direction. I see some blogs recommending services that convert your existing site and host for you, but normally the easy way isn't the best way..Are you normally supposed to setup a subdomain and script to an alternate version based on browser or something? A tutorial or any info would be helpful.

[Jason]

It depends what you want to do. If you have a Wordpress blog there are plugins which do a great job of doing this for you. If you have a custom HTML site then I think these options would be a bit hit and miss. The key thing is whatever you use, it shows the information that you need to display. This is why a custom solution is sometimes better.

You could use something like this to detect and redirect users. This solution uses PHP.
http://detectmobilebrowsers.mobi/

Another consideration is that recently JS Frameworks have started to support mobiles which present a load of new options for phones.
http://jquerymobile.com/