With the advent of the Apple iPhone and the explosion in 3rd Generation (3G) wireless networks the opportunities for the development of mobile web sites and content have never been better. However, what has been missing in this new mobile landscape have been simple ideas and solutions to allow the desktop web developer to easily migrate to this new platform. Mobile web site development is different from PC / desktop web site development and the nuances and subtleties create a “learning curve” that is steeper than one would wish it to be. This book attempts to address this “learning curve” and give the PC / desktop web developer simple examples, patterns and ideas that can be easily used and adapted for this new mobile world.
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Richard Yates has been working with mobile applications since 2000. He began his mobile design and development career with Palm Web Clipping applications and he has developed applications for the Palm, Pocket PC/Windows Mobile and Nokia/Symbian platforms in addition to the mobile Web. He was one of the first people to become a dotMobi Certified Mobile Web Developer. He has developed both enterprise as well as “shrink-wrapped” mobile applications and has been involved in building businesses around a mobile strategy. For additional information about him or to view and download the examples in this book go to http://aryates.mobi.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not at all what I expected - this book is self-published and content is really basic,
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This review is from: Building Mobile Web Sites: Design Patterns, Recipes and Ideas (Paperback)
I don't usually like to write bad reviews, but given the title of this book and considering there were no reviews I felt a need to write something about it. I am a developer, information architect and programmer and have developed a mobile website for a global Fortune 100 company, so I have a little bit of experience in this area.
A design pattern, according to the Wikipedia definition is "a reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design." There were no solutions in this book, only a tutorial on how to code HTML for a mobile website. I was very interested in this book because I was interested to see how certain problems I've encountered in mobile web development were solved by other professionals. Unfortunately, this book is not much more than a beginner's book on mobile web development, with just a very basic introduction to the process of mobile web development. This book doesn't cover browser redirection, video, or any other advanced topic. This book is also self-published, which I'm not opposed to, but the book has huge text, poor line spacing, and bad typography. It makes it look unprofessional and even hard to read. This could be a good primer to mobile web development (for someone not familiar with web development) but needs some work. The author needs to hire a graphic designer to typeset and layout the book professionally, and it needs a new tagline.
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Great discussion of basic mobile features and usability,
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I am a soon to be mobile publisher, not a developer. This book gave a lot of very helpful information about mobile interactivity and information design that helped be realize features and formatting that I was not familiar with. I feel much more confident about conversation with a developer and moving forward with my mobile project. I am most likely going to have a mobi site designed/developed for me, but will admin and upload content myself so it is likely I will refer to this book to touch up code as I do in wysiwygs. I see it as an invaluable resource to step into the mobile space of publishing.
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This book is really a basic HTML primer. It is not for those experienced in Web programming.
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mobile browser, site header, mobile web space, mobile web environment, mobile web developer, mobile web development, mobile web site, resolution height, span tags, resolution width Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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mobile browser, site header, mobile web space, mobile web environment, mobile web developer, mobile web development, mobile web site, resolution height, span tags, resolution width Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Menu Item, Cascading Style Sheets, Basic Concepts, Basic Tables, Basic Images, Color Page, Live Music, Document Object Model, Markup Page, Site Lcgc, Site Context, Sun Microsystems, Select Element Navigation Banner, Mobile Web Best Practices, Metaphor Style Tables, Windows Mobile, User Agent, Scripting Events, Links Filter Page, Color Use Page, Images Figure, Basic Tests, Mobile Web Page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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