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Making your .mobi domain compliant

ronan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:52:20 +0000

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 Switch On! Guides (Style Guides)

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:53:52 +0000

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.

Screencast: Beginning Mobile Web Development

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:48:57 +0000

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 materials

admin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:45:51 +0000

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.

Sample dotMobi Certification exam questions

admin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:22:50 +0000

After 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.

A Beginner's Guide to Mobile Web Development

cameronmoll — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:13:03 +0000

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 Mobile Web Developer's Guide

ronan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:21:57 +0000

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.

Mobilizer - optimise your site for mobile

ruadhan — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:04:14 +0000

The Mobilizer tool from Ubik.com is a tool for building mobile sites. It has two main use cases: you build a mobile site from one of its templates or you give it the address of your current desktop site, and it crawls and "mobilizes" all the pages it finds. There are three steps in the Mobilizer process to convert an existing desktop site: Importing, Editing, and Publishing.

XHTML Mobile Website Templates

admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:31:26 +0000

The dotMobi mobile website template is an XHTML template for a complete static .mobi XHTML website. This template is designed to act as a starting point for web developers to create their own sites. The template is coded in fully validating XHTML Mobile Profile and there are extensive comments within the code to help guide those unfamiliar with XHTML.