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Posted by admin 2 years 15 weeks ago
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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.

The course covers the following:
  • The mandatory dotMobi rules
  • XHTML Mobile Profile
  • Validating your code
  • Testing using desktop browsers
  • MIME types
  • Use of mobile emulators
  • DotMobi site templates
  • Useful tools for mobile development
  • Getting your site indexed by Google
  • World Wide Web Mobile Web Initiative best practices

If you have completed the training, you may be interested in becoming dotMobi-certified. You can find out more about our certification programme here.

Click on the image below to launch the course in your browser!

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Developers should also consider looking at the following documents for further information:

 


Posted by admin 2 years 15 weeks ago

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Posted by gabe 2 years ago

Which links to the training docs are more up to date: above or the ones from the "certification" page .. some refer to different docs.

Posted by Denk 1 year ago

Hi

The tutorial is really helpful, but I have a problem near the start...

The tutorial says that we 'could' use the HTML Validator extension to check if our pages are valid.

My first 2 lines in my code are:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd"> (had to add a space or the site didn't want to show this line)
Now, the validator already goes 'berserk' that it doesn't recognize the DTD, since it's not an official W3C DTD.

I'm fairly sure the both lines are correct, so I don't really understand why the tutorial says that we could use that seeing it clearly doesn't work...

Any advice?

Kinds regards,
Denk

Posted by Dustin77 41 weeks ago

Same with me

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

and the validator goes nuts.
But my page gets a green go from:
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/ and http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN
and I did choose the SGML version.
But good video anyways.