iPhoneize your website, instantly!

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iPhoneize your website, instantly!

by Jay Hathaway Nov 10th 2008

If you don't know anything about the iPhone, the MobileSafari browser, or web design in general, creating an iPhone version of your website can be daunting. Intersquash.com makes it easy. Just put in the address of your site's RSS feed, give it a name, and click iPhoneize. If you want, upload an icon. That's all you have to do: Intersquash gives you a little bit of code to paste into the body of your site, and it's magically optimized for iPhone viewing.

Last time I looked, Intersquash had already iPhonized around 2,000 websites. The results are nothing fancy, but you get a clean, readable, functioning iPhone site. It definitely beats making iPhone users wait for for your full site to load. You do need a working RSS feed to use Intersquash, but you've probably got one of those if you use any major blogging platform. If you're having problems, try a service like Feedburner.

Tags: intersquash, iphone, iPhonize, mobilesafari, webdesign

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James said 6:48PM on 11-10-2008

Gack! There's no way to read the rest of a post that doesn't have the full body in the feed -- that is, they do not display/use the "article link" portion of the feed item.

I think this is Not Ready For Prime Time. I just tried to "iphoneize" Big Download's feed, and it went spastic on me, looping the "scroll sideways" animation until I closed the tab.

Tim McKinley said 10:08PM on 11-10-2008

This site is ok, i have found venuem.com does a better job and allows me multiple color schemes and even support flickr integration.

Mike Rapin said 3:19PM on 11-11-2008

If you have a wordpress site, a better solution is the WPtouch plugin -> http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/

Jon Rook said 6:11AM on 1-28-2009

Did not work for me - I found http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/feed/ - which actually works a treat for my RSS feed and gives me a unique url for my blog

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