Best bet is to learn Responsive design and build with a Mobile First approach. You can hide things such as links to the cart by this method if you want.
Couple of good places to learn is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design and one of my favorite frameworks that helps a TON in getting you along the responsive track is: http://getbootstrap.com This will help with the fragmentation and will keep you from writing things twice. -J.J. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Mark Spence <markpence...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am looking at options for how to structure the file system for the mobile > portion of a site. Before I commit to coding, I would like to figure out > the best way to go about this. > > I could create a subdirectory /mobile/, but that is two sets of code base > to maintain and changes would have to be made in two places going forward > for site wide changes. > > The other option I can see is conditional code implemented in the main > site, with alternate layout files(fusebox site) and tweaks to the generated > html in the dsp_ files. Basically a big cfif in the dsp_ pages based upon > user agent. I can see it getting messy as there may not be a direct > correlation for all files and the mobile site may fork from the desktop > version a bit. > > This is my first mobile site so I am learning and making it up as I go. > > Lastly, I'm not even sure if it is worth it. I get bugged by google > webmaster tools about mobile usability issues, and I would like to address > that. I am hoping to get a boost in rankings, but I don't know how valid > that hope is. Can anyone shed some light? > > It's an ecommerce site, and I don't plan on implementing check out for > now. More of a "browse our stuff and buy from your desktop" thing. I will > probably add check out down the line, but one step at the time. > > I'm sure most of you have much more experience in this than I, so any help > is very much appreciated. Thank you. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:373315 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
