Tips to Mobilize Your Website
April 5, 2011
Optimizing web content for the mobile device is an awesome and a relatively easy task. In this article, I’m going to share a few tips on how to get started with mobile web development.
1. Mobile Documentation
Read Safari’s Web Content Guide
It’s very in-depth and helpful documentation. It includes tons of references and sample code, this is always great for reference details. But don’t stop here, I have more tips you may find useful!
2. Design for Mobile
Give your current site a brief analysis. You’ll need to determine which content will be most important to your viewers. You may consider reducing lengthy details such as tags, text descriptions and large images. You may consider using large font sizes and large buttons and links. A great way to get mobile web inspiration is to check out “mobile only” site galleries and showcases. Consider subscribing to these lovely sites.
3. Display Mobile Content
There are several ways you can do this. The quickest and easiest way I prefer to do this in WordPress, is to utilize the Mobile Theme Switcher Plugin. Its a very simple plugin that allows you to set different wp themes for the iPad, iPhone/iPod Touch, and Android Browsers. If your looking to simply mobilize existing content, you could do it by loading a specific stylesheet for mobile browsers, check out Safari’s Mobile Web Guide.
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