what do i need to build a wap site ?

Q1. I mean what are the software requirements ?

Q2. what programming languiage do i need to know for it ?

Q3. can i write its code in text editor like Notepad ?

Wireless Application Protocol????

shougan wrote:

Wireless Application Protocol????

I think he means Wireless Access Point...

Shougan is right.
A website thats specially made to be accessed on handheld devices such as mobile phones ,palm tops, PDA's etc .

eg http://wap.yahoo.com

Hope now u get ........

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starnge no one has knowledge bout it.

This is going back some for me & things might have changed but I think you need to learn WML (wireless markup language). It's extremely similar to HTML with 'pages' arranged as 'cards' in a 'deck'. It's a form of XML (extensible markup language).

Yes you can edit your files in notepad no prob.

In terms of hosting, you need a WAP-enabled (wireless application protocol) hosting service.

I actually tried to run a few WAP pages from my usual host - and it worked. I had to fiddle about with the http headers as I remember, I think I wrote a perl script to pump out my WML with the correct headers. Or come to think of it, it might have been a case of editing my .htaccess to get the server to recognise the correct mime types. It worked for a few weeks, I could access the pages I'd created on my mobile 'phone - but then it mysteriously packed in. Maybe the host caught on & changed something; they were upgrading their servers at the time though so possibly that had something to do with it.

If you want to use images you need to use WBMP images (wireless bitmap) - there are a few converters floating around on Google that'll let you convert a BMP or JPEG or GIF. (with pretty severe loss of quality).

There are hosting services around that will automatically detect the type of handheld at the other end of the line, as they vary in what image formats they'll accept, and serve the correct image format automatically, not sure how this is done, whether it's an 'on the fly' type thing or whether you have to supply a selection of different image formats for the server to choose from.

I believe this service is available from tagtag.com but when I last looked their site was down.. hmm

Anyway, as I say, I was playing around with this maybe a year, 2 years ago even, so things will have moved on a bit I guess.

At any rate, it's not frightening & a good google session should turn up the bones you need, good luck

Here's a link to some info:

http://www.w3schools.com/wap/wap_intro.asp

Hi marathonman, i have a site that can be accessd on mobile phones Its on Geocities.
http://in.geocities.com/looksmart_82
its a site on SMS messages . this site is made in html .As i dont know WML . I simply wrote html code for it & uploaded . it even have a counter but that counter never worked on my mobo. ..



Ya i know about tagtag.com its still down ...

Can u please tell me some WAP-enabled (wireless application protocol) hosting service providers ?

I haven't tried these, but they might be worth a visit:

Wappy
http://wappy.to/home.html

DeZines
http://www.web-hosting.com/support/unix/multimedia/wap/wap.html

LWD hosting (uk based)
WAP enabled package annual subscrip. £39.99
(Normal hosting package with WAP as an additional perk)
http://www.lwdinternet.co.uk/hosting/lwdwaphosting.html

Brinkster
WML enabled as standard at $4.95 -month
http://www.brinkster.com



Do you have an existing hosting package? The GeoCities one maybe.. if you have and you can access your .htaccess file, you might be able to enable the correct mime types yourself.. you'd need to check with your tech support that it's ok to do so though, and bear in mind the procedure will probably be slightly different from host to host. The following link might give you a flavour of what's involved though:
http://help.powweb.com/tutorials/htaccess/wapwml.php

Counter etc. might work properly then.

let me know if any of the above are useful, if no joy I'll have another dig (let me know if you only want free ones - all the free ones have some kind of restriction though, or adverts, or they have no ftp access etc.)

i will check them out

Thanx for Help Dude

I used www.tagtag.com to make my wap site. it's free and you can add all the content you want to it

Yep tagtag's back up again, ISTR using them with no probs too - positive memories albeit misty now..