Mobimanage vs. Mobisitegalore: 2 web-based mobile site cms compared
A few days ago I stumbled over “mobimanage.com”, which reminded me a lot of mobisitegalore.com. So let’s do a quick comparison between the two. The whole purpose of both of these sites is to turn regular websites into mobile websites and manage them on a web-based CMS. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, there is a catch. With both systems you have to build your mobile website from scratch. I could find no possibility for an XML export (or any other export) on your regular website to the mobile site, which would be by far the most convenient way to build your mobile site.
As far as I could see from the information on the site, mobimanage offers 3 payment plans from 10$ to 25$ to 50$ monthly, which I personally find a little steep, considering mobisitegalore.com offers almost the identical service for free. Mobimanage offers 3 basic services: Tourism, real estate and political websites. However, during my test it seemed that you could create any type of site you wanted, so I guess this is just mobimanage’s way to attract customers from those types of businesses. Mobisitegalore makes no such “limitations”. All in all, both sites offer a decent service for anyone who wants to create a mobile website. Both sites can be used for educators to deliver content to their students, trainees etc. Still, the fact that mobisitegalore is free will certainly motivate some people to choose it over mobimanage. Personally, I’d recommend mobisitegalore. Still, at a maximum of 50$ a month mobimanage is very affordable for larger projects, so you might give both a try and decide for yourself.
Mobimanage
Mobisitegalore
Mobimanage LLC is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mobisitegalore is a project by Akmin Technologies, which is based in Chennai, India.
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Correction May 5, 2009: In response to Seth Spillman’s comment I would like to point out that mobimanage indeed does have an XML-export feature, which in my opinion greatly enhances their service.
3 Comments
Seth Spillman on May 4th, 2009
David- thanks for your interest in mobiManage. The product you compared to mobiSiteGalore is actually our mobiCreate product, and there are a few differences I’d like to point out. Our mobiCreate product is a fully-hosted solution, hence the minimal monthly fees. Also, you CAN import XML data through the CMS, as well as directly manipulate the CSS.
We also provide custom-designed mobile sites for a variety of customers through our mobiConversion process. We have a suite of mobile solutions for specific industries as well. Given your day job, you would probably be particularly interested in our mobiAgent solution for the real estate industry. You can see a live example of mobiAgent in action at http://www.cboklahoma.mobi.
Thanks again for your interest in mobiManage!
David on May 5th, 2009
Thanks for your comments. Lisa Kolb also very recently posted a tweet on http://www.movylo.com/ which enables users to also create their own mobile site.
Judy Brown on May 4th, 2009
There are a number of other free mobile development sites out there such as Mob5, Winksite or Wirenode, but what I also like about Mobisite Galore is that it lets you download the code to place on your own domain. Mobisite Galore can be a very useful tool when creating a concept proposal for a mobile project.