mobile sub domains

[DVTimes]

Whast is best
m.domain.com

or

www.m.domain.com

apparently they are different.

[DateDoc]

if someone has to type it in on a phone the shorter the url the better

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by DateDoc

if someone has to type it in on a phone the shorter the url the better

so m.domain.com is best

[DateDoc]

Originally Posted by DVTimes

so m.domain.com is best

as an end use having to type it out i'd say yes

[HandballJim]

both work on most of the websites I visit with my blackberry? then again it might be forwarding to another domain...

[Adam_M]

I don't use www. on any domains mobiile or pc but at the end of the day it really is a personal choice and won't much as the one you don't use will have a redirect to the other.

[raymor]

thing.com/m/ also has advantages in sharing cookies saved logins, etc with the ready of thing.com.

I wouldn't put the mobile optimized pages on a different site (m.thing.com) without a good specific reason for doing so.

On that topic, one thing to avoid, something I fine terribly annoying, is redirecting thing.com/whatever to just m.thing.com. GFY does that, so for example you can't follow links to threads or any otter pages. If you're going to redirect, redirect to the right page like this:

RewriteRule (.*) /m/$1

Or:
RewriteRule (.*) http://m.thing.com/$1

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by raymor

thing.com/m/ also has advantages in sharing cookies saved logins, etc with the ready of thing.com.

I wouldn't put the mobile optimized pages on a different site (m.thing.com) without a good specific reason for doing so.

On that topic, one thing to avoid, something I fine terribly annoying, is redirecting thing.com/whatever to just m.thing.com. GFY does that, so for example you can't follow links to threads or any otter pages. If you're going to redirect, redirect to the right page like this:

RewriteRule (.*) /m/$1

Or:
RewriteRule (.*) http://m.thing.com/$1

a bit too technical for me.

i am a bit thick.

[acctman]

see if you can get a short domain example site sexygirls.com with mobile site sxygrl.com .. and of course m.sexygirls.com would auto direct to sxygrl.com just use a script to do the detection

[cooldude7]

m.domain.com is best

[Barry-xlovecam]

mod_rewrite ; that is so Mickey Mouse and slows the server ...

It can be easily done in the DNS template for the site (the correct way);

$TTL 14400
domain-name.com.	86400	IN	SOA	ns1.domain-name.com.	emailname.hotmail.com.	(
						2011110109 ;Serial Number
						86400 ;refresh
						7200 ;retry
						3600000 ;expire
						86400 ;minimum
	)
domain-name.com.	86400	IN	NS	ns1.domain-name.com.
domain-name.com.	86400	IN	NS	ns2.domain-name.com.
domain-name.com.	14400	IN	A	100.100.100.100
localhost	14400	IN	A	127.0.0.1
domain-name.com.	14400	IN	MX	0	domain-name.com.
mail	14400	IN	CNAME	domain-name.com.
www	14400	IN	CNAME	domain-name.com.
ftp	14400	IN	A	100.100.100.100
ns1	14400	IN	A	100.100.100.100
ns2	14400	IN	A	200.200.100.100
m.domain	14400	IN	A	100.100.100.100
www.m.domain	14400	IN	A	100.100.100.100

{....}_EOF_

Either sub-domain.com or www.sub-domain.com will work this way -- www is a "sub-domain" in itself so sub-domain.sub-sub-domain.domain.tld really makes little sense IMHO.

[AJHall]

Going with the shorter name is good advice as is using a script to detect mobile users and redirect them to the mobile site/domain or have a link to let them choose the mobile or full version of a site.