Opinions needed on best way to add a mobile site

We have an existing somewhat older website that does not nicely support mobile devices. While it looks and works fine on tablets, it becomes somewhat unusable on smartphones. We do not have the time/dollars at this point to start from scratch and rebuild with all of the latest bells and whistles. So the question becomes what is the cleanest/fastest/easiest way to add a mobile website. In trying to research this answer, it appears there is no one right answer. I actually have found many possibilities. Right now I have Dreamweaver CS5 and am not going to upgrade any time soon or change tools.
Here are some possibilities I'm considering:
Adding a new "home" page and letting the user decide to either "go lean and mobile" or go wide screen and use the full website. This doesn't seem too bad to me since I'm clearly going to have to maintain 2 websites in the near term.
From there I see choices where the direction is chosen based on the OS or it is chosen based on the screen size. I have seen some based on Javascript and some CSS based. It just gets pretty confusing to know which is best.
We are adding online ordering (pizza place) and want to definitely make it useable for the mobile world. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
As a follow on question, how big of a problem would we run into (how many phone users might we anger) if we used a js based menu on our mobile sit?. Not sure how many devices/OS don't support javascript.
Thanks so much!
Donna

If you go down this slippery slope, trying to identify mobile user-agents is the single biggest obstacle you will face. The list is understandably huge and constantly changing. To make matters worse, many browsers pretend to be other browsers. So sniffing for mobile devices and redirecting them to your mobile only site is not only a major chore, it's not even 100% reliable. And then there's the matter of maintaining 2 separate sites... Oh, don't even go there.
Re-code your current site to make it Responsive. Below are several Frameworks you can use to jump start your new layouts.
Foundation Zurb
http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php
Skeleton Boilerplate
http://www.getskeleton.com/
Initializr (HTML5 Boilerplate, Responsive or Bootstrap)
http://www.initializr.com/
DMX Zone's Bootstrap *free Extension for DW*
http://www.dmxzone.com/go/21759/dmxzone-bootstrap/
Project Seven's Page Packs *Commercial CSS Templates for DW*
http://www.projectseven.com/products/templates/index.htm
Whichever menu system you choose, it needs to be user friendly for desktops as well as touch screen devices. CSS styled lists are the foundation to build on. Then you can add jQuery MeanMenu to make it mobile friendly. I have a working example of it below (resize your browser viewport):
http://alt-web.com/FluidGrid/Fluid2.html
Nancy O.

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