What We Do

MobileBrandBuilder enhances a SiteBrandBuilder Web site by automatically detecting if the user is coming from a mobile phone and automatically redirects them to a mobile friendly site. It is MobileBrandBuilder's belief that tablet users will prefer a desktop site over a mobile site and thus does not redirect tablet users to the mobile site.

MobileBrandBuilder was designed with the intention of creating a smaller site that caters to mobile user's needs and limited resources, rather than take the exact content from a desktop site and reformat it for a mobile device. The belief is that not every page will exist on a mobile site than compared to a desktop site.

We do not prevent desktop or tablet browsers from accessing a mobile site, we just do not automatically perform the redirection on them.

If a request comes in for a desktop page MobileBrandBuilder will check to see if a page of the same name exists for the mobile site, and if so it will redirect them to the mobile version of that page, otherwise it will send them to the mobile home page. At the bottom of every mobile site there is a link to view the desktop version of the site for anyone that wishes to do so. It will set a cookie to remember that this was their preference and any subsequent requests to the desktop site will skip the mobile redirection. Mobile users on the desktop site will be able to click another link at the bottom of every site that allows them to access the mobile version of the site again (and again the cookie remembers the preference for the mobile site over the desktop).

What We Detect

  • iPhone
  • iPod touch
  • Blackberry browsers
  • Android browsers
  • webOS based phones
  • Windows Phone/IE Mobile
  • Netfront based browsers
  • Opera Mobile
  • Opera Mini
  • Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec)
  • Symbian browsers
  • Nokia browsers
  • Palm browsers
  • T-mobile browsers
  • Sony browsers
  • Motorola browsers
  • Vodafone browsers
  • many more smaller devices

What We Do Not Detect

  • iPad
  • webOS based tablets (e.g. HP Touchpad)
  • BlackBerry based tablets (e.g. BlackBerry PlayBook)
  • Android based tablets running Honeycomb (Android 3.0) or newer (e.g. Xoom, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab). Save for the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, no Android tablets running 2.x cannot be distinguised from an Android phone.
  • other browsers that identify themselves as tablet or desktop devices