15 Apr, 2010
A mini compendium for mobile website development
Posted by Bhavin Turakhia
At Directi, we have been toying with some ideas around making some of our web apps mobile friendly. I spent sometime reading and reviewing various online guides on mobile website development. Here are a few of the good resources I found -
- http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/effective-design-multiple-screen-sizes – Designing a mobile website for multiple screen sizes
- http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/mobile-web-design-getting-point-part-i - This article investigates salient aspects of Google, Facebook and Twitter’s mobile websites
- http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/mobile-web-design-getting-point-part-ii – This article applies principles from part i towards building an online store
- http://mobithinking.com/best-practices/a-three-step-guide-usability-mobile-web - A Three Step Guide to Usability on the Mobile Web
- http://mobithinking.com/ – Nice articles on stats, marketing advice etc for mobile devices
- http://eng.designerbreak.com/2009/tutorial/create-a-mobile-site/ – A tutorial on creating a mobile website
- http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/ – W3C guide on Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
- http://deviceatlas.com/ – the most comprehensive data source on handset detection and handset information – provides APIs and tools
- http://ready.mobi/ – The mobiReady testing tool evaluates mobile-readiness of a website using industry best practices & standards. The free report provides both a score (from 1 to 5) and in-depth analysis of pages to determine how well your site performs on a mobile device
- A Mobile web developers guide
- Oreilly book – Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps
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For this interest of yours,I think you must look at our (Volantis’) product portfolio. One of them is Ubik – http://www.volantis.com/ubikcom.
The best part is that it seamlessly and intelligently renders the portal on different devices.
Cheers
Amit
Hi Bhavin.
This is a great compilation. But the only issue with mobile designing and development is that screens, technologies and everything mobile keeps changing. With the recent addition of slates it seems the differences will wipe out soon.
Finally Yes for the time being (may be couple of years) this model of multiple designing is required. It would be great to look out for someone who will change the game once and for all.
BTW the first link is not working
Regards
Chanda
Hi Bhavin,
Iam very much impressed with your stepping stones in young age. I have entreprenuer thoughts, but i did not entered into that domain.
I worked in various areas java, j2ee and SAP and working in SAP domain and i currently live in US.
Could you share the ideas and thoughts by email.
Thank you,
Srinivas.
Hi Bhavin,
Great efforts.
Its a very nice sites for mobile website development.
The biggest benefactors from mobile web development are the small-business and medium businesses. It is now possible for them to market themselves more effectively in the local market yet with global reach with mobile websites.
Thanks.
@all: thanks for your comments
Bhavin,
I just stumbled across your post from October about determining who is humble during an interview. I thought it was very insightful and I’m going to use it in our interviews going forward (I am in HR). I just read a book by a guy named Joe Navarro you might find interesting, it’s called “what every body knows”…it’s all about reading body language. Here is the post I created based on your insight for my own blog! http://bit.ly/5Y5NC
Best,
tracy
Good Info. Currently we have undergone for an mobile app dvpt. So i would be useful. Searching for an links where i could learn about page development for iphone.
Mobi Ready is so useful to me.
Currently we have undergone for an mobile app dvpt. So i would be useful. Searching for an links where i could learn about page development for iphone.
Mobi Ready is so useful to me.
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