Question

I have developed a website in asp.net for iPhone.
Now I am stuck in how to deploy that site on the iphone?
Never done it before.
How to make it iphone ready so the device can access the site ?
Any ideas…

Thank you All.

Answer 1

Social Circus, as Mehrdad says you don’t need to change anything to allow users with iPhones to access your site; iPhones use a mobile version of Safari that renders pretty much everything like a normal desktop browser. There are a few things worth noting however if you want iPhone users to have a good experience browsing your site:

• No Flash. If you’ve used Flash at all in your site it won’t work on iPhones (or most other mobile platforms).
• The resolution of the iPhone is 320×480. The top and bottom bars will take off a minimum of 20+44 = 66 pixels. You could implement a CSS template that re-formated everything into 320 pixel width but this is a lot of work. See something like Google Mail in an iPhone browser for an example.
• iPhone users will be able to add a shortcut to your webapp on their desktop, with a name they want, so the actual URL matters less from this perspective.
• Finally, it’s worth noting that many iPhone users think of webapps as a bit “passe” – a bit old (man that’s sooo 2008!). This isn’t really fair but it’s mostly true. With 65,000+ apps on the app store no-one’s going around looking for webapps any more. For a better chance of adoption, especially if it’s something like a game, perhaps look at using the SDK to write an iPhone-specific version? (quite a lot of work usually!!)

Hope that helps