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Finding a mobile version of a website can be a challenge. First you should know that not all sites maintain a mobile-friendly version. Second, there is no uniform way of indicating the address of a mobile site.
In 2006 the .mobi top level domain name became available. Most all sites that end with .mobi are formatted for handheld devices. Examples include msn.mobi, yahoo.mobi, google.mobi, time.mobi, helsinki,mobi, businessweek.mobi, and weather.mobi.
Some sites, like google.mobi and bloglines.com, sense if you are using a desktop or mobile browser and formats content accordingly.
There are a variety of other ways sites set up their web addresses. They might place m. in front of the domain name, like m.twitter.com. mobile.answers.com places mobile in its address. The American Museum of Natural History's site has handheld in its address, amnh.org/handheld.
 Apple's iPhone is sparking a whole new wave of mobile sites. Unfortunately most of the sites formatted specifically for iPhone's Safari browser do not render correctly (if at all) in other mobile browsers like Explorer Mobile, Opera Mini, and Blazer. Sites for iPhone's Safari usually have iphone somewhere in the address, like brainyquote.com/iphone.html and iphone.fluther.com. (These two sites for iPhone do work in other browsers.) Websites specially made for iPhone and iPod touch are called web apps. Apple has a directory listing thousands of web apps at apple.com/webapps.
You may just have to look around the site to see if there is a link to a mobile, handheld, WAP, PDA, or web app version of the site.
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