46 Mobile Templates available for Blogger

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Although our Blogger sites can be viewed on most mobile devices, it can be difficult to effectively read blogspot sites due to the small screen size.

To enhance our readers experience of Blogger blogs when viewed on Smartphones (and similar devices), the Blogger Team have enabled Mobile Templates as an opt-in setting through Blogger in Draft.

Mobile Templates reformat the appearance of our blogs to include:
  • Blog Title
  • Recent posts with thumbnails and a preview snippet (which are linked to their item pages)
  • Links to read the standard version of the site
  • Mobile Ads (where the blog owner has chosen to display Ads beneath posts or in the sidebar)
  • Comments (including avatars), scaled images and videos
If you have chosen to use Blogger Pages and have added a Page List gadget to your template, this will be shown in the position it appears in your site.


Which templates are supported?

At present, six variants each of the Simple and Awesome templates are available as Mobile Templates. If you're using one of these Blogger Template Designer templates, the mobile version of your site will appear styled in the same manner as when viewed on your desktop.




If you use a different, third party or customized template, the mobile version of your website will adopt the Simple template appearance.

I'm pretty sure we'll be able to customize the appearance of our Mobile Templates by adding custom CSS, which I'll write about in a future post once I've experimented a little.


How to enable Mobile Templates for your blog

Currently Mobile Templates are an experimental feature available through Blogger in Draft to which we must opt-in.

Log in to your Blogger dashboard via Blogger in Draft, then go to Settings>Email and Mobile.

Near the top of this page you'll see the new option available to enable mobile templates for your site, along with a preview link and QR code (so you can preview on your own mobile device):


Check Yes to enable Mobile Templates, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save. 

Once you've saved this setting, anyone who visits your website using a mobile device will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of your website.


What do you think

Do you like the new Mobile templates, and have you enabled them for your own Blogger site?

Please feel free to leave your comments and opinions below.

46 Comments:

23 December 2010 04:15 Brandon said...

This is great! Thanks for the Christmas present!

23 December 2010 06:42 Best Website Designer said...

Looks great. I would surely use these templates for my blog. I think this is the best Christmas gift you can come up with.

23 December 2010 08:42 DarkUFO said...

Amanda, have you found a way to use this new mobile feature on customised blog designs?

23 December 2010 10:03 Amanda Kennedy said...

@DarkUFO - I'm using this now for Blogger Buster which seems to work fine (currently using the Simple layout), but haven't yet checked older blog designs.

From what I can tell, the way to customize the appearance is to add the class prefix ".mobile " to additional style statements in order to customize the appearance in mobile browsers. Not had time to try it much yet, but will do my best over the holidays so I can write up a post.

Hope this helps!

23 December 2010 15:11 Stories About Us Do Follow said...

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23 December 2010 17:01 ajay said...

it just fantastic informative post.these mobile templates will be so useful to all bloggers,its such a great news.

24 December 2010 09:58 Layouts For Blogspot said...

hmmmm can i modift mobile template?

25 December 2010 04:53 bayu said...

nico postt.. thankss

25 December 2010 06:09 dunkdaft said...

this was long awaited feature since WP has an awesome mobile template for all sites pre installed.


THanks blogger for this awesome feature

28 December 2010 00:33 Patricia Altner said...

This post was so helpful. I had no idea I could make the change for mobile. Thanks!

12 January 2011 13:22 Reza Winandar said...

For bloggers who blog about mobile things or creating contents for mobile users, then this template is absolutely right for you!

14 January 2011 22:17 Berpikir positif said...

Thank you I have to aplicate to my blog

23 January 2011 04:43 Rishabh Dangwal said...

Nice feature, I have implemented it at my site too :) Please sort out a way to customize the mobile template..

Thanks

8 February 2011 07:55 tutorial blogspot said...

I have open settings->email&mobile but i dont see the option : 1.yes show the mobile view
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thanks

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19 March 2011 10:12 Danny Vice said...

One problem.... If you use a third party commenting system like Discus or intense debate, blogger mobile will ignore it and prompt the user to comment using the native comment system.

If someone does leave a comment on the native system, it kicks out all the third party comments for that post. At least on I.D..

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6 May 2011 19:30 i4Tips said...

I'm using default template now but cant see that setting. How can i enable it ? Thank you

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It's increasingly important optimize your site for smartphones , because Google recently has adopted a smartphone user agent to index websites that use custom versions for smartphone users:So, those who optimize their sites for mobile phones will rank higher in Google Search Mobile. It's great that Blogger created templates to do this optimization.

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