TrafficZ has added new parking templates. It now also offers a .mobi parking template that can be seen here:
Usually I like their parking templates although they do not necessarliy tap the full potential of a parking template. But this seems to be often the case in the industry.
And since I often have to work with .mobi sites and .mobi technology, I wanted to check their .mobi readiness score at ready.mobi. This is for me a selection criteria for a .mobi parking template.
To my surprise I always get the same error:
When I test the .mobi readiness by uploading the parking page to a folder on one of my servers I do not receive the error mentioned above but instead I get 5 real fails (Layout tables, no submit button, page size limit,…) and a score of 3 out of 5.
Since as the domain owner I count on direct navigation (user directly types in a domain instead of searching) to increase revenues, I expect the parking page to work properly on a mobile device. Alright, I do not expect a score of 5 but Javascript and the fails will not convince me.
.mobi
domain brokerage domain parking domain trading Domains dot mobi eBusiness mobi 
September 16th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Trying to find decent web design templates for .mobi. Intending to design sites, or convert sites. I have found plain looking but functional templates, I would like something a little better, and ones that obviously comply. Can you help me please. I will understand if this conflicts with your interests and you do not wish to part with any information you may have, but thanks in advance anyway.
Kind regards
Phillip
September 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Have you tried the templates at dotMobi?
http://pc.dev.mobi/?q=node/10
They may be a good starting point.
I would also recommend using a sitebuilder to build your .mobi site (hassle-free…)
Sitegalore has .mobi building capabilities: http://www.sitegalore.mobi/ and the CM4ALL WebSiteCreator as well (www.cm4all.com).
The difference between the two is that with the CM4ALL product you do not need to maintain several sites. You build your regular website and it automatically generates a mobi compliant version of it. This is unique on the market so far.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi
Thank you for this information. Yes I have tried the templates at .mobi. Took a basic template and changed the background colour, inserted an image, used the site checker and from a score of 5 arrived at a score of 3.
Site builders are very basic and not classy enough. The best I have come up with are here at http://go.wapple.net/example-mobile-internet-wap-sites.htm They are asking 50 pounds per month per site of 20 pages, and when I suggest splitting the pages over several clients, they were not very happy with this. They are talking of building web sites and my charging clients thousands of pounds per site. I should be so lucky!
Another builder I have found is at http://mob5.com/catalog/default.aspx This seems to fall somewhere in between and has a white label scheme. But true to form on the Internet this company is scared of publishing it’s prices, so will have to phone them to extract same.
CM4ALL looks very interesting. With this I can create sites for clients and offer .mobi as well.
The other road I would like to go down is in fact the creation of my own .mobi templates so that I would have a few examples to show clients. So if I could find software to purchase enabling me to do this that would complete my search.
Thanks again for your help.
Phillip
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
[…] Trafficz.mobi Parked at TrafficZ ((Mobile parking lander not .mobi compliant) […]