Optimizing Your Website for the Wii
I've optimized my blog (and thus my Greencode Wordpress theme) for browsing on the Nintendo Wii. So if you read my blog on the Wii, it will look like this:
It was pretty easy, and you can do it too, by following these two simple steps:
1. Create a Wii-friendly stylesheet. This is similar to creating a mobile-friendly stylesheet, and it involves enlarging the text, removing superfluous crap, and just making your site easier to read from a distance. You can see the stylesheet I created here.
2. Serve the Wii stylesheet to Wii users. The user-agent string of the Wii will be something like Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1309-9; en), so in PHP, you can accompish this like so:
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Wii;") !== false){
[... wii stylesheet ...]
} else {
[... regular stylesheets ...]
}
And just for fun, I also added an "Optimized for the Nintendo Wii" watermark in the top-right corner and enabled the Wii stylesheet for anyone who adds "?wii=1" to the end of a URL. For example, here is the Wii-friendly version of this post.
Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. 
February 24th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Does a wii emulator exist so we can see what a site would like in a wii - yea i know it uses opera, but what other little things does it have enabled/disabled. Like besides flash what plugins are on the Wii?
February 24th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Janz: not that I'm aware of, but it appears that the Wii version of Opera differs only from the desktop version in its navigation tools. In the browsing I've done, mostly everything acts the same as it does on the desktop.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:51 am
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March 27th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Awesome article.
Now my website is wii optimized!
http://www.thoughtquotient.com
April 12th, 2007 at 12:22 am
i want some more Wii Games lol
May 19th, 2007 at 12:37 am
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July 8th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Hello. May I rent your layout for my site? :)
November 11th, 2007 at 2:34 am
This theme with the Wii formating is so great! Thanks for putting this together.
Have you tried using the CSS modification with other themes for WordPress?
Thanks Again,
Steve
November 19th, 2007 at 2:26 am
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Thank you so much!
We are working to design a wii frindly flash games site.