Ubik Builds Mobile Sites
June 17th, 2008 (2:50pm) Mike Gunderloy No Comments
Mobile site provider Ubik has just come into open beta, so I took it for a spin. Unlike some similar services, which translate an existing site or RSS feed for mobile use, Ubik is designed to build new sites from scratch. The whole process is dead simple: select a template, pick which pages from the template you want, and then customize it with their in-browser editor. You get an image picker and a rich Ajaxy editor to work with. It’s free to create and publish a site, which then carries an Ubik acknowledgement on the bottom of every screen and is hosted on Ubik’s servers.
Ubik is very easy to use, and the supplied templates are sized well for the tiny screen. You can preview what your site will look like on anything from an iPhone to a grainy first-generation mobile browser. This is the easiest way I’ve seen yet to get a site optimized for a variety of mobile browsers without writing any code.
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