Create a Mobile Web Site

Personal mobile web sites are a very effective means of sharing information and mobile media content. There are a few things you should know when authoring and deploying mobile web sites.

Many Internet hackers run their own web sites to communicate with peers. For advanced mobile hackers, setting up your own web site is a powerful way to enhance your mobile web experience. Via the web site, you can build a personal gateway to the Internet, share private content with family and friends, or even provide services to peers and the general public. In this hack, I'll first introduce the various mobile content markup languages with some simple examples, including an example of how to download and upload files from and to a web site for sharing. Then, I'll cover the server-side MIME-type configuration, which is necessary to make web pages accessible to most mobile phones, as well how to password-protect your data. Near the end, I'll provide a brief overview of mobile web development tools from Nokia.


To understand the various standards and specifications in the mobile Web landscape, you should learn a little about how mobile browsers and their content markup languages have evolved in the last several years. As I mentioned in "Browse the Web" , HTML, WML, and XHTML MP browsers are the ones you're most likely to find on Nokia devices.