weather.cod.edu mobile

[Tyler Allison]

As some of you know, I help out with the CoD weather website (weather.cod.edu)

I'm in the process of building a mobile version for use on my iPhone after spending 10 days chasing and realizing just how much it sucks using the CoD website from a phone. I'm interested in comments/requests for content.

http://weather.cod.edu/m/

-Tyler

 

[Robert Edmonds]

Seeing that no one responded I guess I'll speak up, since it's always nice to have feedback about a website's development . First my impressions of the non mobile CoD site on my ipod. As long as you get past the main screen (I kept clicking on the College of DuPage Click here for more info graphic) then I didn't have to many problems. I like to access CoD weather page for the satellite/radar and profiler data, so when navigating those areas of the site, my only two suggestions are, bigger links/buttons, and I don't like that it opens another browser to view the radar/satellite images.

For the mobile site, I assume (guess) more content will be added... but the one thing that some times annoys me is when there's no way to get out of the mobile site. There's one or two sites that force my Ipod touch to use the mobile versions (at least I couldn't find a way out). Since mobile versions usually don't include all the possible content of the regular site (understandibly) it is sometimes nice to switch back to the normal site to get what you want/need.

Hope this helps...

 

[Tyler Allison]

If you use the mobile version (weather.cod.edu/m/) there's a "go to full site" link at the bottom that will jump past the main page

 

[Robert Edmonds]

If you use the mobile version (weather.cod.edu/m/) there's a "go to full site" link at the bottom that will jump past the main page

I just mentioned the stuff about being able to go to the full version site, just to try and make sure buttons like that don't go away... hope I didn't leave a bad impression

 

[Jeff House]

I like the mobile site. It is very fast for SPC text info and even the Outlook. The speed will be quite useful compared to the slower mobile sites. Any plans for radar mobile? When I go to the full site (using a Blackberry) I cannot switch from ref to vel on the radar. Normally have a laptop with me too, so it is no biggie. Sometimes just want to take a quick look on the BB. Thanks for working on the mobile version!

All the best.

 

[Tyler Allison]

I plan to add more as I have time.

 

[Doren Berge]

I have a mobile bookmark page that I've been tinkering with for a while. Optimized for iPhone.

http://stormcast.net/mobile/

The "Resource Index" links at the top are anchored to subsections further down the page.

It's a work in progress. I change it frequently. There's nothing proprietary about it. Feel free to borrow, copy or steal the source code if it suits you.

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