Mobile Sites...are you using template sites or making them yourself?

Hi Alton

We plan to mix them up a bit. If the clients want specific functionality that always comes at a cost so we will run with GoMobi on those ones.

The local customers who just want to be seen we will probably run with templates that we create ourselves.

Hope that helps

regards

Bronwyn and Keith

Hey Alton - the "catch" with gomobi is they now have a few resellers you can choose to purchase through and each has different price points.

When I first learned about them last summer, name.com was the only reseller in the us and their price was like $6/month per site. Since then enom and now openSRS now offer the gomobi sitebuilder to their resellers and openSRS has the best price I've seen at only $2.50/site plus their initial reseller signup fee.

Seems like a small, fair price to pay if you're charging a monthly hosting fee plus for the initial design - plus once designed clients can then edit their sites without you having to get involved.

If you want to do your own sites with wordpress, this article at sitepoint mentions some nice themes or if you want to design your own and know your way around a WYSIWYG html editor, I think it was user "Quentin" that recently had a WSO about doing things yourself that looked nice.

Having looked at just about every option out their for doing mobile websites I think I'm going to use goMobi myself through OpenSRS - but there's no reason you can't try a few different services out and mix things up a little as Bronwyn and Keith mentioned.

Cheers,

Steve

The biggest problem with them is they charge you to send all your traffic to them.

Great for them Bad for us.

See my sig.

Quentin

Currently I am using the Tappinn platform and I also invested in Quentin's mobile website building course to know and understand the brains of how to build them. The Tappinn platform is a little pricy $49.95 a month, but well worth it. I make that back times three. I can build unlimited smart mobile sites, QR codes for the mobile sites and track the codes. So look at TappInn QR Code Marketing to see what they offer. Either way you can't go wrong.

Simon
EyeMobilize Marketing

Simon I think you should check that site on a mobile phone as it does not fit properly.

My friend just did his on gomobi and has a lot of problems with it falling of his domain and going to theirs.

Now I am not just saying this to promote my own stuff but would you put all your websites on my domain please and pay me a few dollars for the privilege. I will get all your traffic and any credit will go to me.

If someone makes a mistake with the url etc I will direct your traffic to my site and make another sale.

Thanks.

Steve - Is that a monthly fee for you to work out of as opposed to a monthly fee that would be used for each client? As in one for each mobile site you do?

Thanks...And how does the reseller account thing work? Would that be for someone selling mobile sites? Or for someone who is selling businesses on the idea of making a mobile site and going through your services to make their own?

A lot of questions...sorry!

Quentin, who replied in this thread, has an awesome mobile site tutorial that will teach you how to write your own scripts, I've used it a few times.

Just a suggestion.

Absolutely i used mobile templates but i wanna try create it my own but i don't know how to do it can anyone tell me some tips about it.?

I am a me-tooer regarding Quentin's program for building mobile websites. Glad I did as his customer support is second to none. Thank you Quentin for being a stand up guy.

If anyone is interested, type:

converting traditional website into mobile website

into your favorite search engine. You will get an eyeful. There seem to be a minimum of 6sites touted on the first page and they all list their prices. This is good as it gives you pricing parameters.

Personally, I am sticking w/Q's material as it is easy to use. The biz owners with whom we talked with to date all want someone else to do it and maintain it. His program lets us put one live in 45 minutes.

I am NOT a reseller and don't even have an affiliate link for his program. I just happen to be a fan of a program that works and guy who provides super support.

Just my 2¢...

Thanks for all the kind words.

Lets face it if you have zero skills then sites like gomobi and Tappinn etc are great I just feel that paying them to host your site is a bad move from a management and traffic point of view.

Its sort of like running your business from a hosted site like wordpress.com or blogger. Yes it makes it all a lot easier but not very professional.

Quentin

Glad to see you bought Quentin's stuff. If he wasn't going to pitch it I would have. As far as templates if you are even half good at HTML you can copy many of the templates you see on template sites and likely have something that works better due to Quentin's script.

Or, hire a designer to make something similar to them. From oDesk it won't cost much!

I made a basic template of my own with Quentin's offer and now it takes maybe 30 minutes to do a new mobile site. I am going to host them on my own site and pocket all of the money myself ;-) Once I figure out a little better how to do some find and replace routines I'll be able to knock them out in a 15 minutes.

To answer the question posed by the thread title: we're building all of our mobile sites from scratch... no templates.

We are not using websites for tempaltes .
Template design is not so easy to develop .Templates require some charges like that software charges ,designer salary and some others.Templates's charges depend on template quality and types .High quality template have high prices .Many companies prove template for free to make Goodwill.We also provide free templates