We're ready for feedback on OBB's new mobile design. (If you're having probs, be sure to include your phone model in your comment!)
About Ariel Meadow Stallings
Author of Offbeat Bride: Creative Alternatives for Independent Brides, Ariel acts as the publisher of all the Offbeat Empire websites. She lives, loves, and dorks out hard in Seattle, WA.
Keri said
Thank you!
Genevieve said
Oooh! Awesome! I sit at work at read it on my iPhone all day. Haha.
Krystal said
Ooh This is exciting! I use OBB ALL The time on my iPhone, but I can't post on ning with it.
It never works for me, I dunno why.
Ariel said
http://offbeatbride.ning.com/m is the mobile version of the Tribe … but it's pretty barebones.
Sarah said
Because the search box doesn't have a 'go' button I can't use it on my phone, as I can't press 'return' :/
Ariel said
What kind of phone are you using?
Sarah said
It's a Nokia 5800 but I'll use that link you posted in future, thanks!
Ariel said
Also, if you ever need to go straight to search, you can always just go to http://offbeatbride.com/look-test
Suzanne said
Looks good on my phone. I have a MyTouch Slide, and it all works and looks nice and everything!
april said
I love it! Thanks. I have a Droid and it looks great.
Offbeat Ang said
OK I tried it on Hubby's Blackberry Tour, and the mobile version didn't come up. Just the normal web version. Works great on my Storm 1 though.
Ariel said
Yeah, I have this sneaking suspicion that it's working great for iphone and android, but not for blackberry. Luckily 85% of our mobile traffic is iphone/android, but I still want to get it working for blackberry…
hellothais said
I have the Blackberry Storm 2, and it's working just fine. :]
Ariel said
Interesting! So it's inconsistent on Blackberries. I'll have to check the user agent settings. Thanks!
Offbeat Ang said
Seems to be working OK on the Storms. It also could be his OS, since apparently he isn't special enough for the latest upgrade.
Miss Didi said
ahem. I got very excited, expecting a calder-like art project..clearly, NOT a tech nerd.
Brandy said
Yayy I love it ! Now I just have to get some pretty pix and start bloggin and I'll be addicted
SaraPaintsHair said
I have a palm phone (thru Sprint) and OBB looks ok but for one minor annoyance…black text on a black background=hard to read! I just "select all" and that solves the problem.
Ariel said
Weird — you shouldn't be seeing black on black. You should see a black background behind white blog modules, with black text. That's VERY odd. Anyone else seeing black on black?
SaraPaintsHair said
Ariel, I wouldn't worry about it…my phone's a year and a half old. In mobile phone years that's like, what…80? It's not going to stop me from OBB-ing while my clients are processing.
Jessica_Iowa said
I'm going to assume that if I had a 'real' smart phone and not an LG Envy touch I'd see the mobile site not the normal web version.
Ariel said
Hmm, no it should work for that — I need to update the user agent section to make sure more phones are auto-triggered to go to the mobile version.
Jessica_Iowa said
I'll try it again in a few days,but I'll tell you I never 'auto-triggered' to a mobile version as far as I can tell.
nicole said
I have a motorola droid and every page I view has an annoying gray horizontal bar through the middle of the screen. Even when I scroll down past wherever it is on the page it will reappear further down, just following where I scroll. Id love if that could be fixed.
Ariel said
Weird! I'm using Android too, and I don't see that. I'll see if I can troubleshoot.
Kris said
I'm on an iPhone 4 and it's looking great to me! Now the only issue I am going to have is when to put my phone down….