It’s become significantly easier to keep tabs on the Iola Register from your front pocket.
The Register has recently developed a website, m.iolaregister. com, for cell phone users.
The mobile version contains nearly all of the elements of its traditional website, but in a more condensed layout that’s easier to maneuver with a small screen, explained Paul Sombke, the newspaper’s webmaster and news and graphics guru.
The site is designed to detect automatically whether a person is accessing iolaregister.com through a computer or mobile device, such as a cell phone or iPod, Sombke said, so visitors do not have to adjust their settings.
“It will go to the mobile site automatically,” Sombke said. “You won’t be getting the exact full site as you would from a computer browser, but you can still get about everything you need.”
The mobile site allows access to current news, sports, editorials, society news, obituaries and classifieds.
The obituaries and classifieds are available to everyone regardless of whether they are subscribers.
The news content is available by subscription-only.
Online subscriptions are available for $10 a month. Print subscribers are allowed full access to the website as well.
Sombke said garage sale enthusiasts should find the mobile site “very convenient.”
Cell phone users can access the garage sales listing in the Register’s classifieds page, Sombke said, “and it’s there in a neat list, one after the other. You don’t have to worry about taking a newspaper with you when you’re out and about.” Once on the classified site, select garage sales.
Cell phone users seeking access to the full site, for such things as updated weather information, also have that option by clicking “view full site” option at the bottom of the mobile browser page, Sombke said.
Register goes mobile
