While a lot of layout in a website can be done with your grids, you don’t want to necessarily use grids to display tabular data. Therefore, you want to use a table. Bootstrap has given us several CSS classes that we can use to easier layout our tables. For basic styling, you will only want…
Couple of interesting thoughts on mobile forms in jQuery Mobile. First, the concept of creating a mobile form is similar to creating a form for a desktop user. This means you will create a form with the standard action, and using GET/POST as you normally would. This also includes wanting to add labels with the…
Tables are part of the HTML specification, so they are supported in mobile devices. However, working with the space, makes for some interest viewing. Most of the time, you first have very tall cells as the browser tries to fit all of the columns. Then you end up having to scroll your table left and…
jQuery Mobile is a framework designed to work with touch devices. This includes phones, tablets, and even some book readers that support web viewing. The mantra of jQuery is carried over, write less, do more. As the jQuery Mobile is designed to automatically add much of the CSS styles and additional tags and classes for…
Installing jQuery Mobile into a website is an easy task.As with jQuery UI, you can choose to install it locally, or you can run the JavaScript and CSS from jQuery’s website. Most people run it from their local site, as it reduces the DNS look-ups, which are slower in most mobile browsers/networks. To download jQuery…
Unlike working with Navigation in the mobile environment, forms input will be more about styling and proper use of HTML tags/attributes. Because of the size of the screen, we need to find good ways that we can overcome the small space. This means providing an easy and clear way for users to enter information into…
Coming up with a good navigation structure is important in mobile web design. We’ve already looked at some issues when dealing with navigation in mobile devices. Now we are going to look at some ideas on over coming these problems. Problem Recap Just to recap some of the problems we may experience: Taking up too…
The process for designing for a mobile webpage isn’t that conceptually different from a desktop. It just requires you to use some extra steps. For example you will normally follow a basic formula of: Receive Project Requirements Sketch out/mock-up designs Build HTML Test in various browsers Modify as necessary Repeat testing The core difference is…
