Once you’ve got your new blog up and running on WordPress, perhaps given it a polished, professional look with a tool like Thesis, you then realise that more and more people are arriving at your site from a mobile device!
Now it’s time to start thinking about how your site looks when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, Android or even Google’s Nexus One.
Certainly, your blog will not look the same as it does on a desktop browser when viewed on an iPhone. Mobile devices have smaller screens, large images need to be scrolled and many mobile browsers will attempt to adjust the site fit on screen – which usually degrades your user experience when surfing to your blog from an iPhone or other mobile device.
I’ve been customising my blog for iPhone today, here are some useful tools which might help you do the same.
WPtouch
WPtouch is a free plugin you can add to your WordPress blog to ensure that your blog is customised for iPhone whenever an iPhone user visits your blog.
Installation was very straightforward, the options under settings are set to default so that you are up and running straight away.
I found the resulting look of my blog on iPhone to be very impressive and it was a doddle to get this up and running.
My only concern with WPtouch was compatibility with my Thesis theme, which gives my site its overall professional look and feel when viewed from a normal computer and browser, but there were no compatibility issues between Thesis and WPtouch, because WPtouch is a plugin, rather than a theme.
WPtouch is available for download completely free from BraveNewCode. They also have a tool for automatically retweeting your blog posts, WordTwit, which I will review at a later date.
If you don’t have an iPhone to see how your site looks for the iPhone user, there are tools available which will emulate how your site will appear to an iPhone user which can be used to check that your site looks okay for that 
platform. This works in the same way as the many sites available to check how a new site is looking when rendered by different browsers.
Though I haven’t tried it myself, iPhoney is one resource I came across today when researching my site update to be iPhone friendly. iPhoney will emulate how the site is looking on the iPhone, so you can be certain the results are what you expected.
Next exercise will be to optimize my blog for Blackberry and then possible Android, but I’m happy today at least that I have a blog that looks good on an iPhone running Safari, which should increase my audience reach significantly.
