How To Improving Your Mobile Web Designs
It’s
estimated that by 2014
mobile Internet usage will outstrip desktop and laptops. That means
that nearly 2 billion people, world-wide, will browse the web on a
mobile device. The problem is that the web was designed for computer
screens. All of the coding and web design rules were created for a big
monitor, keyboards, and mice. Soon, most people will be using smaller
screens and touch interfaces. It’s time to learn mobile web design so you can be prepared for the future.
We’ve gathered together some of the best
tutorials from around the Internet to get you up to speed and going with
mobile web design. Or if you are already work in
mobile web design, there are some great tutorials included to help improve your skills.
This easy-to-follow tutorial shows how to write HTML code for a dropdown menu that converts cleanly to mobile screen sizes.
This tutorial gives the scripts you need to create fluid images and
videos that easily transfer from large monitors to small mobile devices.
Learn how to create elastic HTML5 videos, elastic object and Iframe
embedded videos, and how to create fixed width and elastic videos in CSS
and HTML.
This tutorial walks you through how to effectively plan for mobile iOS/
Android app design. There are plenty of helpful hints and tips to make
your designs a success.
Learn how to use HTML5 and CSS3 media queries to create a design that is
cross-browser responsive. In other words, learn how to make your
website look great, no matter if visitors are using a mobile device or a
PC.
This SmashingMagazine tutorial gives an excellent overview of responsive
web design along with tips and coding needed to implement it.
This tutorial walks you through how to use MoFuse for coding your
mobile website design. Keep in mind that MoFuse does the coding for you, so even beginners can use this tutorial.
Simple things like using relative measurements instead of fixed widths
for your site can make your code more flexible and renderable on mobile
devices. This article gives plenty of helpful basic tips, perfect for
those who are new to mobile web design.
Strip out the extraneous and focus on the basics so that your mobile
site doesn’t take too long to load over 3G connections. This tutorial
walks you through how to do this with easy to follow explanations.
If you’re going to create several mobile sites, this article will get
you started on knowing what you need to crank out high-quality designs.
This incredible tutorial from SmashingMagazine shows how to add CSS3
stylesheets for mobile devices to your actual website coding.
Clean up your mobile design and make it more appealing and easier to use with this helpful and easy-to-follow tutorial.
For those about to begin a mobile design, be sure to read through this refresher course full of helpful tips first.
If you’re deploying mobile websites across your family of internet
properties, you’ll need a strategy. Read through these important
considerations in this article before beginning.
You can create a normal mobile website, or you can create a
fantastically awesome mobile website. Here are the best practices for
designing for a mobile interface.
Code your site from scratch or update your existing site to work with
mobile devices using this detailed tutorial from SmashingMagazine.
Learn how to degrade media queries for responsive mobile design by following these techniques for best practices.
Learn how to use Adobe’s web design software to craft a mobile site right alongside the desktop version.
Create the rules for a site to render correctly on multiple screens from within Dreamweaver.
What do you do when the width of your data table is larger than the
width of a mobile phone? This article from CSS Tricks gives you some
handy tools for solving this problem.
Am I Missing Something?
Hopefully the compilation above will get you started down the road to
creating great mobile websites, either from scratch or by applying CSS
rules to your existing site to allow it to work on any sized device.
If you think I have missed something great or valuable do let me know in
the comments!
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