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dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide
A comprehensive guide to mobile web development. Contains everything you need to know about building mobile Web sites
- Best Practices - Posted by Veruska Anconitano on 21 Mar 2013
Why Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO strategy- There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, Google doesn't mandate the use of Responsive Web Design (RWD) as best practice for SEO. Google expressly says "Google does not favor any particular URL format as long as they are all accessible to both Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile” the bots Google uses to crawl desktop and Smartphone specific content. And it’s worth noting here that Google is crawling desktop and mobile content separately.
- Best Practices - Posted by cameronmoll on 09 Mar 2007
A Beginner's Guide to Mobile Web Development- While accessing the web on a mobile device is nothing new, a renewed interest in developing mobile web content has been ignited by the increased availability of WAP 2.0 devices, an abundance of skilled XHTML developers, and notable efforts by groups such as dotmobi and the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ronan on 08 Mar 2007
dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide- I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further.
- Best Practices - Posted by ronan on 01 Nov 2011
Mobile web content adaptation techniques- Introduction This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't describe how to do it, rather it instead tries to help you to pick the right approach. Before we begin it's worth clarifying exactly what the goal of the exercise is. Generally speaking, people who are looking to build a mobile site fall into two categories. They're either:
- Frameworks - Posted by ruadhan on 23 Jun 2010
Meet goMobi - A New Content Mobilization Platform- Here in dotMobi we've just launched our latest product. The culmination of months and months of hard work by the dotMobi team has resulted in the release of our spanking new content mobilization platform: goMobi. You can find all the official blurb over at http://gomobi.info along with some videos of our CEO and CTO talking about the product. What I aim to do here is to give an overview, from a developer's viewpoint, so that you can find out what there is in goMobi to appeal to the developer in you. A quick introduction
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by ronan on 07 Feb 2008
Making your .mobi domain compliant- The .mobi domain is unlike all other domains in that it has a set of rules that web site owners must follow -- most other domains such as .com, .net, and .org do not have any technical requirements about the content hosted in the domain. The .mobi rules often cause confusion amongst site developers and domain holders so we thought we'd try to help people get their domains to pass muster.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by admin on 25 Oct 2007
DotMobi Switch On! Guides (Style Guides)- The dotMobi Switch On! Guides are a set of guides governing certain technical protocols and services in the .mobi domain. These style guides are a combination of mandatory rules and optional best practices that, when applied to content and services associated with the domain, ensure a good user experience for users interacting with the domain and its services via a mobile device.
- dotMobi Compliance - Posted by admin on 25 Oct 2007
Screencast: Beginning Mobile Web Development- In order to help web developers who are already familiar with authoring for the PC-internet adapt their skills to mobile, mTLD provides a short online course that help explains the different techniques that are required for creating a mobile site. This course is completely free of charge and streamed directly to your browser.
- Certification - Posted by admin on 06 Jul 2007
Certification materials- There is a zip file attached to this page that contains a set of resources that may be used ONLY by certified developers on their web sites. This is a set of images and PDF files that can be used to market the fact that you are a certified dotMobi developer.
- Training - Posted by admin on 06 Jun 2007
Sample dotMobi Certification exam questions- UPDATE: dotMobi certification course is no longer runningAfter receiving a number of requests from people to post a sample of the exam for the dotMobi Web Developer Certification course, we've finally bowed to public pressure. The questions listed below are not ones that you will find in the real exam, but they are representative of the kinds of things you will be asked and the difficulty level you can expect.
