How To Make Your Blog Mobile Device Friendly

When typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila internet connection was wonky and most relied on their mobile phones to update their social networks such as Plurk, Facebook and Friendster.  I was one of them.

I am a self-confessed blogaholic and a day without viewing or updating my blog makes me uneasy.  I am glad that Earthlingorgeous.com, this blog, is mobile device friendly (try m.earthlingorgeous.com on your mobile device and see what I mean) I was able to view and update my blog as often as possible.

Would you like to know if your blog is mobile user friendly?   You can test by going to Ready.mobi. It will give you a complete analysis of how your web content is likely to function on a mobile device. Ready.mobi will give your information on the speed, cost and performance of your blog using a mobile device.

Here is an example:

This is how my blog looks like on a NokiaN70 but you can also view how your blog content looks like for a Samsung, Motorola and Sony Erickson.

Now you wonder how to make your blog mobile device friendly? All you need is to install the WordPress Mobile Pack plugin which is a complete toolkit that helps mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher, filtered widgets, and content adaptation for mobile device characteristics.

This is a useful tool specially those who want to boost you blog traffic and blog income.  You can read and install this plugin here.