General Questions
MobileStudio is a mobile web creation platform that provides self-service, web-based tools that simplify the creation of mobile sites. MobileStudio has been developed by industry professionals that understand the complexities of mobile web and who know after years of experience how to overcome the challenges of going mobile.
MobileStudio is an easy to use service with a clear value proposition compared to other mobile site building tools currently on the market. Try MobileStudio for FREE to compare it with any of our competitors and experience the difference.
The technology behind MobileStudio has powered many content owners, media companies and brands in the last 5 years. Now, this tested technology is offered as MobileStudio to allow developers of all levels to create a mobile web presence, as well as manage promotional campaigns and sell content direct to consumers anywhere in the world.
No! Anyone can use MobileStudio to create professional looking mobile sites. With MobileStudio you do not require any programming skills. You can create and manage as many sites as you want and as often as you want using the sitemaker drag & drop functionality. MobileStudio also offers you several templates to choose from to quickly create a mobile site.
Yes! MobileStudio provides professional tools for developers of all levels and is a perfect tool to manage all of your customer sites. You can now offer your customers a MobileStudio Professional Account and charge extra for your development services.
Visit the Partners page of our website to choose a money making program that best suits your business.
Yes! You can create all the free sites you want with MobileStudio by creating Basic Accounts. Create one for your favorite hobby, to showcase your pictures or one dedicated to your pet. We are able to offer MobileStudio for free by serving targeted, third-party ads through MobileStudio sites. This ad revenue supports our development, hosting and marketing costs and allows us to keep making it better and better.
It is also free for anyone to access the sites you have created with MobileStudio, although some mobile operators may charge for data access, depending on the user's data plan.
We offer a Professional Account for $35/month if you'd like to remove the advertising from your site and use all of the advanced site promotion and money making features of MobileStudio. You can log into your dashboard, and setup as many Professional Accounts as you want.
We recommend the Professional Account for creating a mobile ad landing page(s) or to sell content on a branded mobile portal.
The Professional Account allows you to:
- - Create Ad Free sites that are 100% faithful to your brand
- - Add your own Ads using Google Ad Sense and AdMob. We are currently working on integrating more mobile ad network services for you to choose from.
- - Get all the Site Promotion & Money Making features offered with MobileStudio to sell your content direct to consumers.
MobileStudio features an advanced device detection capability that will render your MobileStudio site properly on almost any phone in the market today.
MobileStudio formats your mobile Internet site to look great on the iPhone (and iPod Touch!). Our advanced device detection technology serves up the proper logo and styles to make your site look its best on almost any phone in the market today.
Yes they are! Once your site is live, it will be searchable by bots from Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Depending on the type of content or text you include in your site, your site will show up in mobile search results for relevant keywords.
The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited for any mobile site created with MobileStudio. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, content that, in the sole discretion of MobileStudio:
- - is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- - harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- - exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- - contains nudity, excessive violence or offensive subject matter.
For more information, please read the Terms of Use page of our website.
MobileStudio is an application that is in constant evolution. Therefore we appreciate your help in reporting any abnormalities in the service so that we can fix the problem as fast as possible.
Please contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard to report the error and we will work to solve the problem ASAP. Please be as specific as you can when describing the error.
Account Information
The Basic Account offers the entire great site building features of MobileStudio absolutely for FREE! The Basic Account is Ad funded which means that in order to cover the costs of providing the free service we run third party advertising banners on your site.
By paying $35 a month for the Professional Account you benefit from all revenue generated from third party advertisement that you control and get all the Site Promotion & Money Making features offered with MobileStudio to sell your content direct to consumers.
Yes you can. Just go to the General Info section of the selected site and change the account type. When changing from a Basic to a Professional Account you will be prompted to a billing system that will ask you to confirm the purchase requested.
When changing from a Professional to a Basic Account just go to the General Info section of the selected site and change the account type. Once you do this we will automatically stop charging you and start running third party banner ads on your site.
You can have as many sites as your heart desires. You can create all the Basic or Professional Account sites you want and manage all of them individually from your Dashboard.
The Basic Account includes up to 100MB of Space and 500MB of Bandwidth. The Professional Account includes 500MB of Space and 2GB of Bandwidth.
Only if you have a Professional Account, you can scale up the hosting plan as required for your mobile site for an additional monthly fee. The additional services and fees are as follows:
- - Additional 500MB of Space + 2GB of Bandwidth - $25 / month
- - Additional 1GB of Space + 5GB of Bandwidth - $75 / month
- - Additional 2GB of Space + 10GB of Bandwidth - $135
- - Additional 3GB of Space + 15GB of Bandwidth - $215
Technical Support & Site Elements
With the Basic Account your mobile site will automatically have a URL similar to: http://mysitename.mobilestudio.com
With the Professional Account you can personalize the URL by configuring your own domain name in the DNS section of your Dashboard.
All you need is a PC with an Internet browser to use all the of the MobileStudio tools. No downloading of software is necessary as MobileStudio is a Web-based application. MobileStudio provides hosting services that are scalable at any time and backed by an experienced team of technicians.
We recommend Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 for best results.
Graphics and logos should be in JPEG, GIF or PNG format. MobileStudio will automatically reduce the size of your Site Logo to fit mobile screens, so you don't have to worry about the width and height.
Yes. MobileStudio will allow you to create sites and store a wide variety of content files downloadable to any mobile phone anywhere in the world. You can create sites that offer downloadable images, music, videos, ringtones and java applications.
With a Professional Account you can integrate your mobile site with BANGO billing solutions and charge users for downloading your content.
We recommend you upload your Wallpapers in JPG format and your Animations / Screensaver in .GIF format (because only GIF files support animation).
MobileStudio supports 3gp format for video downloads. Please remember to reduce the bit rate and frame rate so that the files are as compact as possible (without losing too much quality so that the user who downloads them still has a pleasant experience).
You can upload the following formats for ringtones: MIDI, MP3, AAC, RTTL, SMAF, AU
Please remember to reduce the bit rate so that the files are as compact as possible (without losing too much quality so that the user who downloads them still has a pleasant experience).
The games should be in Java format (.JAR files). For each game you can upload various versions; when you upload them you will need to indicate which versions will be compatible with which phones. Our platform will detect the phone model and offer the correct version for download.
MobileStudio accepts RSS feeds. We are working on supporting more feeds in the near future.
Number of visitors / most visited pages / most used handsets / registered users sales / most popular downloads / traffic origin (by country)
Advertising
We work with a range of advertising aggregators for the ads that are displayed on sites build with the MobileStudio Basic Account. Please contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard and we can help find the right fit for your advertising needs.
We work with a range of advertising aggregators that specialize in creating mobile web advertising campaigns to help drive traffic to your mobile site. Please contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard and we can help you find the right campaign for your advertising needs.
All BASIC Accounts created with MobileStudio are Ad funded. The only way to eliminate third party ads from your site is by upgrading your site to a Professional Account.
Please contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard if you are experiencing an issue with the ads being displayed, and we will work with you on a solution.
Billing
In order to provide a reliable billing solution we have partnered with BANGO to allow any of our registered users with a Professional Account to bill for content.
Although MobileStudio and Bango are technically integrated, you must first sign up for a FREE Bango account by filling in the form provided in the Billing section of your Dashboard.
If you are ready to commit to a Bango Package and get a higher payout rate you can contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard requesting our help with choosing the best package for your business.
For more information on Bango Packages you can visit www.bango.com
At the moment we are only integrated with Bango and we are working on creating relationships with other billing providers to allow additional automated signup services. Nonetheless, if you are keen on working with any other provider, just contact us through the Support section of your Dashboard requesting assistance in this matter.