After switching to WordPress from Movable Type at the end of August, I made the most of what I knew of WordPress at the time. But I’ve gradually learned more. And now I’m happy to announce that Manufactured Mobile, the mobile version of this blog, has relaunched. It still utilizes an XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 DOCTYPE. It’s optimized for iPhone / Blackberry / Pre / Android. Any new, high-end smartphone will do a good job of viewing the site.

It’s a completely separate installation of WordPress. I used the FeedWordPress plugin, which did a very nice job of importing the RSS feed from Manufactured Environments. I won’t say it was as easy to create a mobile site as under Movable Type, but being it’s own complete blog, it’s a much more full-featured thing now. The mobile site has its own About page, Contact form, and tag cloud. I kept the formatting similar to the way it was before – a minimum of CSS finagling and deferring to the defaults of the individual mobile platform.

The new URL for Manufactured Mobile is m.danielstout.com

In related news, Manufactured Fotos is undergoing some reworking. I hope to relaunch that site before the end of the month.