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…
Designing for Mobile brings in some interesting problems. Some of these problems are true regardless of if you are trying to develop via a fixed or a flexible size page. We’ll look at overcoming a couple of common problems, and then building a basic template to use. Auto Scaling of Web Pages For example, most…
Previously we’ve talked about network limitations for mobile devices, and limitations in the mobile device itself. Now we will look at the limitations of the user/design aspect. No Hover State The hover state allows users to know where they are going to click. It provides a very simple method to give visual feedback to the…
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…
Some things are more complex/fancy than useful. Consider the Star Wars Crawl, The Matrix, or a 3D cube. These are often proof’s of concept/fun projects that see what can be done. Of course, soon we’ll see clients who want to have their websites scroll vertically automatically like the matrix, or into a distance like with…
