Knowledge Base: Screen: Choose

In the Choose screen use your mouse to select the parts of your website that you would like to be displayed to mobile users. Your selections are synced with the latest information from your source website. Mobify automatically keeps your mobile site up to date.

Only the most critical items that are easy to interact with on a small screen. For ideas, check out some of the top mobile websites like ESPN and CNN.

Walkthrough

What content is important on mobile?

Before you begin making your selections take a minute to think about what content is most important on mobile for your site.

  • Search box
  • Story headlines, article summaries and breaking news
  • Contact information & driving directions
  • Streaming & downloadable media (mp3 and YouTube Videos)

Choose Screen

  1. Content Selector. The source website is rendered here, without JavaScript or Flash content (we turn these off for mobile compatibility purposes, but you'll get a chance to bring some of it back later). Point and click the content that you want visible to your mobile users. Selections light up in red and have the Mobify icon displayed in the top right corner. Click again to deselect.

  2. Tools. To make content selection a breeze, we provide several useful tools.

    • Save ( ctrl + s ) : Saves your content selections
    • Clear : Removes all your selections
    • Undo ( ctrl + z ) : Undo your last action
    • Redo ( ctrl + y ) : Redo your last action action
    • Expand ( ctrl + g ) : Expands your last selection by one DOM level.
  3. Controls. Enter the address of the page you would like to mobify or move on to the next step by clicking Design .