Question: Making A Site For Mobile Phone Ringtones
How might I go about making a site that I can access from my cell phone to download wallpapers and ringtones... I'm trying to avoid paying for them from other sites, and I figured I could make my own for free and access it for free... I've seen the term "WAP Site"... Can anyone help me out?
Suzanne posted this at 16:03 — 22nd May 2004.
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If you use standards you can access anything from your cellphone.
Make a site, using standards. Upload files to that site. Link them from that site. Surf to that site with your phone, download the wallpapers and ringtones into your phone.
TargetZion posted this at 16:12 — 22nd May 2004.
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Ok, two questions... What are standards? And how do you download to your phone? All of the sites I've seen give you some id number or something like that... Forgive my ignorance, I'm actually new to the cell phone thing as I've always had a phobia for talking on the phone, strange as that is...
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Suzanne posted this at 16:52 — 22nd May 2004.
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Standards
webstandards.org
w3.org
Have you tried browsing with your phone yet?
TargetZion posted this at 17:34 — 22nd May 2004.
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lol... Not really... It's one of those fancy Nokia 6800 deallies... It's a bit complex for a beginner to cell phones... Working on it now though... Thanks for the help, by the way. Appreciated.
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TargetZion posted this at 17:39 — 22nd May 2004.
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So, if I'm getting this right, I can just bust out a page in Dreamweaver and it will be good to go on my cell?
Suzanne posted this at 19:30 — 22nd May 2004.
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Hypothetically, yes.
But you'll find if you don't use standards you'll get some very curious results. Ditto if you use tables.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:33 — 22nd May 2004.
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I haven't looked into this area in depth. I have two sites that are coded to spec and validate 100%, yet I can't view them on my phone. I have to use Google to view them. Someone told me it had to do with the fact my phone has WAP1.2, which is older. I'm not sure...
Edit:
Perhaps this might help: http://www.w3schools.com/wap/wap_intro.asp
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