Starting, Best Practices

Mobile web content adaptation techniques

ronan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:20:17 +0000

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:

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.

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.