Question

I gotta a question, but not sure if I understand it right so here it goes:-)

for example take google.com

If you browse to google.com on your smartphone it navigates to m.google.com
This I understand can be done by detecting device widths etc. but does that mean that google re-wrote the page for mobile devices or can you treat the m.subdomain like a ghost type domain??

I mean, you can navigate to m.google.com but it really is just google.com with a different css or whatever – the index page is exactly the same.

I guess what I am getting at is – if I make a change in an index or any page in the main domain – will I need to update the subdomain separately if I decide to use a m.subdomain setup?

Hope it makes sense,
Cheers Jeff

Answer 1

There are two ways to solve this:

• m.example.com is a new and separate website that needs updating whenever you update http://www.example.com
• m.example.com is an alias of http://www.example.com. Your site at http://www.example.com needs to serve something different (e.g the CSS or even different template) whenever the http request is for m.example.com