How To Improving Your Mobile Web Designs

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.

Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens

This easy-to-follow tutorial shows how to write HTML code for a dropdown menu that converts cleanly to mobile screen sizes.

Fluid Images

This tutorial gives the scripts you need to create fluid images and videos that easily transfer from large monitors to small mobile devices.

CSS: Elastic Videos

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.

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App Interface

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.

Responsive Design with CSS3 Media Queries

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.

Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It

This SmashingMagazine tutorial gives an excellent overview of responsive web design along with tips and coding needed to implement it.

How to Create a Mobile Site with MoFuse

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.

Coding for the Mobile Web

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.

How to Create a Mobile Version of your Website

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.

Mobile Website Tutorial – Mobile 101

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.

How to Use CSS3 Media Queries to Create a Mobile Version of your Website

This incredible tutorial from SmashingMagazine shows how to add CSS3 stylesheets for mobile devices to your actual website coding.

Mobile Web Mastery: 25 Tips on Designing for Mobile Devices

Clean up your mobile design and make it more appealing and easier to use with this helpful and easy-to-follow tutorial.

A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

For those about to begin a mobile design, be sure to read through this refresher course full of helpful tips first.

10 Key Considerations for Your Mobile Web Design Strategy

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.

Mobile Web Design: Best Practices

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.

How to Build a Mobile Website

Code your site from scratch or update your existing site to work with mobile devices using this detailed tutorial from SmashingMagazine.

Techniques for Gracefully Degrading Media Queries

Learn how to degrade media queries for responsive mobile design by following these techniques for best practices.

Produce Websites Based on HTML5 and CSS3 Specifications with Dreamweaver CS5.5

Learn how to use Adobe’s web design software to craft a mobile site right alongside the desktop version.

Dreamweaver CS5.5 – Multiscreen Authoring

Create the rules for a site to render correctly on multiple screens from within Dreamweaver.

Responsive Data Tables

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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