{"id":1220,"date":"2010-01-15T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:55:18","slug":"mylocalvanhire-co-uk-launches-mobile-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/1220","title":{"rendered":"vanrental.co.uk Launches Mobile Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that we have just launched what may be the UK&#8217;s first mobile-friendly van hire site! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> has now gone mobile and we have published a cut-down, small-screen friendly version of our van hire and minibus hire directories.<\/p>\n<p>As most van and minibus hire websites <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> very mobile-friendly, what we&#8217;ve done is to provide a telephone number along with the address of every branch in our directory &#8211; so you can find the branch you need on your mobile then call them straight up. Until mobile websites improve a bit, I think that telephone is the best option unless you have a decent-sized screen at your disposal &#8211; an iPhone at least!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1226\" title=\"vanrental.co.uk mobile website screenshots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mobile-guide.jpg\" alt=\"vanrental.co.uk mobile website screenshot demo\" width=\"585\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mobile-guide.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mobile-guide-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It works fine in a PC browser too (but why would you want to?!?).<\/p>\n<p>Any comments or feedback most welcome &#8211; I&#8217;d love to know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Roland<\/p>\n<p>vanrental.co.uk founder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vanrental.co.uk has now launched a custom-built mobile website to allow mobile phone users to find van hire locations near them and call them direct from their phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[401],"tags":[745,744,18,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10983,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/10983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}