iPhone Surf Reports and Forecasts: Surfing the Web

April 28th, 2008 dawhoo Posted in Internet Technology, Web Management |

Have you ever been driving and started to wonder what the wave buoys are doing? Interested in wave height and conditions offshore? Wonder what directions the winds are at your local break? If you’re a surfer or an avid offshore fisherman, chances are you have.

I do too and that’s why I made a few new web pages, specifically with mobile devices in mind. I wanted to be able to access the buoy data I needed on my cell phone. It needed to be fast loading, easy to navigate, formatted to work on nearly any mobile device and as small a download as possible. I set some lofty goals, but I think I did it.

Navigation on most websites using a cell phone isn’t fun. The pages are too wide, too tall and its hard to find the one spot you need. I boiled down the data to the smallest needed points My phones screen is 176×220 and that’s a small screen.

The pages are very lite with most coming in under 2KB. That’s important because my cell phone company charges me 1 cent per KB. That may not seem like much, but considering how many web pages are 40-150KB, that penny per KB adds up. I visit

You don’t even have to have an iPhone, any web enabled mobile device, can now get the latest buoy reports from the NDBC.

Visit http://www.otesurf.com/cellphone_surf.php for more information

or visit http://www.otesurf.com/go on your cellphone to start getting reports now.

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4 Responses to “iPhone Surf Reports and Forecasts: Surfing the Web”

  1. iPhone Surf Reports and Forecasts: Surfing the Web | E-commerce Blog Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

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    April 29th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    [...] s3thxx wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHave you ever been driving and started to wonder what the wave buoys are doing? Interested in wave height and conditions offshore? Wonder what directions the winds are at your local break? If you’re a surfer or an avid offshore … [...]

  3. Jason Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    How do I get this to my phone?

  4. dawhoo Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    that depends on your phone. You’ll need to read your phone’s manual about how to enter a web address. There’s no one method that works for the literally thousands of different phones.

    http://www.otesurf.com/go

    that’s the URL you need, i hope this helps.

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