New mobile site for PistonHeads

Use your phone to browse the PH classifieds? Good news - it's got a whole lot fancier

By Stuart / Thursday, 30 May 2013 / Loading comments

Earlier today our dedicated team of hamsters launched our new mobile site, so if you access the site from your smartphone, you'll notice that things look different. Hopefully you'll like what you see, as we've been testing it extensively with a team of volunteers over the past few months.

Here's what you need to know about the new mobile site:

- It'll all be served at www.pistonheads.com. So no more m. or mobile. urls.

- It works by detecting the device you're accessing PistonHeads from, and then automatically serving a layout for that device. At present we're continuing to serve the desktop site to tablets, but any smartphone will see the new site.

- Right now, the homepage and classifieds site are live using the new mobile site. News articles and forums will continue to direct to the existing mobile site until we get those finished.

- You can still opt out and see the desktop site on your mobile, but we'd encourage you to give the new site a go, particularly when searching for cars for sale.

- We've tested it against a wide variety of the common browsers and devices people access PH from. However if you're on some very, very new device or very, very old device, some things might look odd. If you see weird things, capture a screen grab and post it on the thread below.

Please do tell us of any bugs, improvements, or even things you like about the site. We'll take all of these on board and are, as ever, fully expecting you to tell us what you think.

To go directly to the new site from your smartphone, click here.