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Unread 26th Nov 2011, 11:10 PM   #1
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How would redirect work for multiple biz locations?
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I understand how a redirect script works for one website and one business location.

But what if a restaurant had 3 or 4 chains with one major website (that maybe had a button for "locations").

How would the redirect script know which location to send the user to?

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How does the normal website know which location to send people to? The redirect script would detect whether the person is on a mobile. It would then send them to the mobile version of the standard website. People would select their location on the mobile website just as they would on the standard website and be taken to the mobile page for their preferred location.

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Originally Posted by WillR View Post

How does the normal website know which location to send people to? The redirect script would detect whether the person is on a mobile. It would then send them to the mobile version of the standard website. People would select their location on the mobile website just as they would on the standard website and be taken to the mobile page for their preferred location.

So, would I take your script and maybe just make a single button named, "Choose Location"?

Then they would select the particular location (of which I'd have separate mobile websites for each location).

Something like that?

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Originally Posted by syncjam View Post

So, would I take your script and maybe just make a single button named, "Choose Location"?

Then they would select the particular location (of which I'd have separate mobile websites for each location).

Something like that?

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That's exactly what i would do. Then i would link that button out to page specific info for each individual branch. For instance, each one of the restaurants might have different hours, or different specials, and of course different numbers.

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Check out the Geo Location feature (just google "Geo Location") - it allows visitors to see the location nearest to them based on GPS.
It is pretty easy to implement, and you can set it to display several "nearest" locations (with an option to see the full list).
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Originally Posted by ElenaEn View Post

Check out the Geo Location feature (just google "Geo Location") - it allows visitors to see the location nearest to them based on GPS.
It is pretty easy to implement, and you can set it to display several "nearest" locations (with an option to see the full list).
That works but you still need to give them the option to choose a location manually - some people may not have a good gps signal or might want to look at a particular venue not based off their current location...

depending on the amount of content each venue requires would for me determine if i create multiple micro mobile sites or not, who updates the sites would also determine that factor too...

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Originally Posted by ElenaEn View Post

Check out the Geo Location feature (just google "Geo Location") - it allows visitors to see the location nearest to them based on GPS.
It is pretty easy to implement, and you can set it to display several "nearest" locations (with an option to see the full list).
Is that jquery? or is there a simpler solution?
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Originally Posted by lanew View Post

Is that jquery? or is there a simpler solution?
It's not jquery but the W3C are currently trying to introduce it as a standard for future web development kinda in line with HTML5 (W3C are people behind mobileOK)

Do a google search for navigator.geolocation - there is some cool stuff out there (disclaimer i am geeky and think its cool! lol)

Doing a search you will find lots of examples although not necessarily for noobs i don't categorize it as too technical to implement - either way a great opportunity to learn something new!

@Lane curious what platform are you using for your mobile sites? Are you coding your own html mobile sites or doing custom php/mysql or running off a mobile theme say for Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla?

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Originally Posted by Jay Moreno View Post

It's not jquery but the W3C are currently trying to introduce it as a standard for future web development kinda in line with HTML5 (W3C are people behind mobileOK)

Do a google search for navigator.geolocation - there is some cool stuff out there (disclaimer i am geeky and think its cool! lol)

Doing a search you will find lots of examples although not necessarily for noobs i don't categorize it as too technical to implement - either way a great opportunity to learn something new!

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