Mobile version of Jim's Tips!

[jbarr]

After reading this thread (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1610) on the ClieSource Apps Forum (http://www.cliesource.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&forumid=25&x=12&y=12), I decided to enable the "AvantGo" function of my jimstips.com (http://jimstips.com) web site. This will allow mobile browsers or users of off-line browsers such as as AvantGo (http://www.avantgo.com) or HandStory (http://www.handstory.com) (my favorite) to view the 20 most recent tips (sorry, there are only 11 right now...more to come!);)

Just use the URL:

http://mobile.jimstips.com

If you are using an off-line browser, set the "depth" to "1" and you are good to go! You can include the graphic if you want, but it's only a logo at the top. With 256 colors and a depth of 1, the clip is about 25K.

Enjoy!

Off topic: I can't praise enough the PHP-Nuke (http://www.phpnuke.org) Content Management System. Yes, there are others, and opinions abound, but this one is free, easy to use, and full-featured!

[jomoco5]

VERY nice job!!!

[jbarr]

Thanks!

And you know, the cool thing is that all I did was just enable the "AvantGo" feature in PHP-Nuke and create the subdomain "mobile.jimstips.com". So easy!

[jbarr]

Thanks to some feedback from Cameron Bulock (http://nx.cbulock.com), I examined the PHP code for the AvantGo module in PHP-NUKE, the software I use for JimsTips.com. Apparantly, it had some HTML "table" code in it that defaulted to 640 pixels wide causing iSolo to not wrap things nicely. Actually, iSolo was probably just rendering it properly, but it was too wide for the screen.

Anyway, I removed the 640 pixel width from the code, and it looks good on HandStory, and when I open it in an Internet Explorer window, it wraps nicely as I re-size the window down to smaller than 640 pixels, so it SHOULD be OK in iSilo now.

Thanks, Cameron!

Please let me know if you have any further problems with this.

More tips coming this week!!!

[cbulock]

I just checked it out in iSilo and it still seems to look the way it did before.

[turcic.com]

Easy... go to iSiloX, Channel Properties, Table.

Do "Process table formatting" -> Include only tables at levels 1 or greater.

BTW you should exclude http://jimstips.com/ (its the link when you press on the logo image).

[OgNar]

I love Php-Nuke. I use it for my own site and my works intranet. So versatile, and easy.

[cbulock]

Turcic,

Thanks that works great now!