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Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal 1st Edition

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How to develop powerful mobile Web sites using popular content management systems (CMS)

Mobile is the hottest thing going—and developing content for mobile devices and browsers is even hotter than that. This book is your guide to it all—how to design, build, and deploy sites, blogs and services that will work brilliantly for mobile users. You’ll learn about the state-of-the-art of mobile web development, the tools available to use, and the best practices for creating compelling mobile user interfaces. Then, using the most popular content management systems, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, you’ll learn how to building world-class mobile web sites from existing platforms and content.. The book walks you through each platform, including how to use third-party plug-ins and themes, explains the strategies for writing your own logic, how to switch between mobile and desktop, and much more.

Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and acquaints you with a range of mobile devices and networks
Covers topics common to all platforms, including site topologies, switching between mobile and desktop, common user interface patterns, and more
Walks you through each content management platform—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—first focusing on standard plug-ins and themes and then exploring advanced techniques for writing your own themes or logic
Explains the best practices for testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site
Also explores analytics, m-commerce, and SEO techniques for mobile

Get ahead of the the mobile web development curve with this professional and in-depth reference guide!

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Learn to implement sites with the major content management platforms

The popularity of the mobile web is seemingly unstoppable, making the demand and expectations for sleek, smooth, and sophisticated web sites extraordinarily high. Unique to the shelf, this book describes how you can develop mobile content and then install, configure, test, and integrate mobile web sites using the most popular content management systems (CMS) in order to provide an engaging and enjoyable experience to users on the move. Placing a special emphasis on three particular platforms—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—author James Pearce explains how to design and mobilize sites in conjunction with each CMS and walks you through the installation and configuration of the plugins, modules, and themes that will get you started, fast.

Professional Mobile Web Development:

Features a brief history of the mobile web and explains what makes it unique
Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and familiarizes you with mobile devices, networks, and their challenges
Looks at how the mobile web is evolving and how best to design for it
Reviews choices and decisions that should be made prior to working on CMS mobilization
Describes the processes involved in testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site, regardless of platform
Discusses mobile analytics, advertising, and other operational topics
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James Pearce is a technologist, writer, developer, and entrepreneur who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure, and management consultancy. He speaks and writes extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and is the author of the popular WordPress Mobile Pack plugin.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox; 1st edition (April 12, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 552 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470889519
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470889510
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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This is required reading for a web design class for mobile devices--and well worth the price. I'm at chapter 4, and the information is comprehensive, historical and helpful.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2011

This is the most comprehensive mobile web development book I've read. The title threw me off at first - I don't do Joomla or Drupal, and only a little bit of Wordpress. But I heard James Pearce speak at several mobile development conferences and was impressed, so I decided to read the book.

The book is laid out perfectly. The chapters that deal with Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal are in the second half and are fairly well isolated. The first half of the book (chapters 1-10) cover all aspects of mobile web development. I was struck by the balance of detail. James covers some areas that other books don't even touch on, but does it in a way that makes you feel like you're sailing through the book instead of getting bogged down.

Here are some examples of the deeper areas that I was glad to see covered that often are skipped in other books: TRANSCODERS: James defines what transcoders are, but he also covers the major transcoder vendors, how they impact the website, and how to avoid them. UAPROF: This is an industry standard way for devices to communicate their capabilities to a server using these publicly available user-agent profiles. MOBILE NETWORKS: The depth of James' knowledge is shown in the histories he provides around mobile devices, networks, browsers, and more. In talking about mobile networks, for example, he walks through the evolution of GSM, CDMA, 3G (UMTS, W-CDMA, CDMA2000), HSDPA, EV-DO, WiMAX, and LTE, describes their providers and typical bandwidths.

In addition to these deep dives, the book has a lot of breadth. It covers jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and other major frameworks. James also covers more conceptual topics such as responsive web design and mobile first.

After the Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal chapters are three more chapters that offer great advice for general mobile web development. The best for me was the coverage of development and testing tools. James covers user-agent switching as well as all the major emulators (iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, Opera, and Windows). He also talks about several device testing services including DeviceAnywhere (acquired by Keynote Systems last week) and Perfecto Mobile.

This book covers everything: mobile networks, devices, frameworks, design, tools, testing, metrics, and more. A better title would be The Comprehensive Book for Mobile Web Development. If you're just starting out or have even been doing mobile web development for a few years, I highly recommend this book as a guide to the world of the mobile web.

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