Mobilizing Your/My Blog – mobile.blog.donnfelker.com

Having a blog has its benefits, but sometimes people want to access your site via a mobile device and, well…. lets face it, rendering your site across many different mobile platforms, looks, well…. LIKE CRAP. Hell, half the time its unreadable.

How to Enable Your Site For Mobile Viewing

If you want to mobile enable your blog, its super-easy with the service provide by mofuse.com (no I’m not getting paid to write this). Literally its only a few steps and you’re done.

1. Create an account
2. Plug in your blog url that you want to “mobilize”
3. Choose the url  you want
4. You’re done!

You can view my mobile site at: http://donnfelker.mofuse.mobi/

Here’s what it looks like in a emulator:

Basic Mobile Phone	Apple IPhone

 

Sprucing Up the URL

Although this is real easy to set up, the URL “donnfelker.mofuse.mobi” just seems clunky to me. Mofuse gives you the ability to set this to a custom domain.

I wanted my domain name to be representative of the content that was being delivered, therefore I chose mobile.blog.donnfelker.com (it is the mobile version of my blog right?).

Changing this is fairly simple, however you will have to alter your DNS records. 

1. Log into your mofuse account and click on the blog that you’ve Mobilized.
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2. Click Custom Domain
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3. Enter your domain that you will be using and make note of the CNAME entry you will have to make.
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4. Click save and you’re now done with your mofuse portion of this task.

Adding a custom CNAME to your DNS records.

1. This all depends on where your site is hosted and where your DNS is located. Mine is located on my host. *Important note: This will be different for each person, but this is how I alter my DNS with my host.*
1. Log into your host.
2. I selected my domain for editing.
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3. Clicked DNS Configuration
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4. At this point in time my DNS info was displayed to me. It looks like this:
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5. Click “Add DNS CNAME Record”
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6. Add the CNAME record and click Submit
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7. Done

You will have to wait up to 48 hours for this CNAME to take effect. I did mine last night at 9pm and when I woke up at 6 it was already up and running.

 

Conclusion

Its super simple to set this up and kudos goes to the guys/gals at mofuse. Now I can go to mobile.blog.donnfelker.com and view my blog on my mobile or send the link to anyone else who wants to see it on a mobile. Excellent!  Good luck in setting up your own mobile blog!