We are happy to announce a new feature for SproutMobi Mobile Website Creator.

Usually when a mobile user arrives to your desktop website, you want to redirect them to your mobile website seamlessly.  This is exactly what our current system provides.

But sometimes there are certain pages on your desktop site that you can’t or don’t want to recreate on your mobile website.  It used to be that there was no way to let a mobile user go to your desktop site without being redirected back to the mobile site.  Now you can!

How To Show Mobile Users a Desktop Page

All you have to do is add ?redirect=false to the end of any url, and mobile users won’t be redirected.

Example:

http://www.example.com/contact (Mobile users will still be redirected to your mobile site)

But if you want to be able to show a desktop page to your mobile users, you would do this:

http://www.example.com/contact?redirect=false (Mobile users will be able to see this desktop page without being redirected.)

One of the best ways we forsee using this is making links on your mobile site to certain pages on your desktop site.  Here is a screenshot of how you could do this…