Properly Display Your Joomla Website on Mobile Phones

As more and more people browse the Web from mobile devices like iPhone, Blackberry, and Android Smartphones, it’s crucial to ensure that your website displays properly on the tiny screen of mobile phones.

Mobile Joomla

Switching a website from desktop mode to mobile mode is not hard with Joomla, thanks to the tiny but useful component Mobile Joomla. One of the most popular components on JED, Mobile Joomla features many customization options you can tweak to ensure that your mobile visitors will have an enjoyable browsing experience while on your website.

The best features of Mobile Joomla are probably its stability and simplicity. Mobile Joomla is easy to implement, and really does what it claims.

Mobile Joomla notable features include:

• User agent detection system through multiple methods, including WURFL;
• Flexible layout settings;
• Support for custom themes and modules;
• iPhone, iMode, Wap, and XHTML device categorization.

Phone Support

In terms of mobile phone support, Mobile Joomla looks well enough. The component uses device detection and smart content adaption algorithms to optimize your website specifically for the device your mobile visitor is using. Mobile Joomla seems to work well especially with iPhone, Android, and Nokia mobile phones, as well as with Blackberry.

Installing Mobile Joomla

You can grab Mobile Joomla from the JED. To install it follow the next steps:

• Save the Mobile Joomla package on your hard disk.
• Go to Administrator Panel > Extensions > Install/Uninstall.
• Select the Mobile Joomla package from your hard disk.
• Proceed with the installation.
• The extension should install in less than 20 seconds.
• Once installed, optimize your mobile website through the Mobile Joomla Menu. 
• If you experience any issues with the installation, it’s probably something related to the PHP. 
• You’re done!

Find out more about Mobile Joomla at www.mobilejoomla.com