In addition to the network limitations that you will run into when working with Mobile Website, like we previously talked about, you will also need to worry about device limitations. These are a most commonly identified limitations that you will run into. Device Sizes The size of the device can cause obvious problems. Being smaller…
Did you know that today’s modern cell phones and tablets are more powerful than the computer used to land Apollo 11 on the moon? Yet despite that, surfing the web still seems to have problems. Let’s look at some of the problems that you will run into. There are two main categories of problems. First…
There for two basic ideas when it comes to working with presenting information for a mobile device. First, should it be an app, or a mobile website. If it is a mobile website, then users start wondering: should they Mobile Specific, Flexible, or Responsive Design to layout the website. Mobile App vs Mobile Website Of…
jQuery allows you to perform several visual effects on one or more elements. Effects can be to show or hide and element, as well as moving an element from one area of a page to another. Showing and Hiding Elements jQuery offers you several ways to show/hide an element based upon what you want to…
Periodically people will try to argue about should they have valid HTML for their websites. Some argue that you should always validate. But does it really matter? Imagine a web browser that could only view valid HTML websites. What would it view? We’ll I’ve read in times past that over 80% of all web pages…
If you have ever worked with CSS you know the problem you can have when you float one element, and then have text next to it. Especially if that text is in a list, or a highlighted box (usually surrounded with a border and/or background color). Essentially the margin of the element next to the…
Things to consider jQuery Mobile takes your (properly formatted) HTML5 document, and makes it work well on a mobile device. However, there are some things you must consider to have a well running mobile website. No library will dynamically re-size, and display, images based upon how big your site is. (at least not yet –…
HTML 5 is still a work in progress. So changes are being made to both the specification, and even more so, how browsers support/interpret the specification. Key Features HTML5 adds some new features to HTML. This is because computers, and therefore browsers, can do more than the original HTML specification was designed to do. Here…
