Best approach to create a mobile version of a website
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Hi all, I have a customer that wants to create a mobile version of his website, he wants to create a subdomain to redirect visitors to the mobile version and this mobile version will be a separate folder hosted on the same hosting.
I'm seeing really good things from frameworks like JqueryMobile but I thinks they are not really SEO friendly since they load pages with Ajax.
So, the question is: its ok to use this kind of frameworks or should I create all the html and css by myself?
I'm really looking forward to use the frameworks, since its faster and less time consuming than creating the whole site with html. But I don't want to waste time if it will not be SEO friendly.
Thanks in advance
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We went the simplest route, while the Mobile browsing community is still gaining momentum.
However, that time is upon us.
I would check the Google Analytic and see who's and what devices are visiting your site right now, and decide how sophisticated this area of the site should be.
Hope this is helpful, goodluck
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