Google has put together a “Basics of a mobile website for SMBs”. This is a four part series, listed below, for you to look at and see about creating mobile websites.

Lesson 1
Learn the tools: PageSpeed Insights, Mobile-Friendly Test and Mobile-Usability

Lesson 2
Bring it in: Viewports, zoom and plugins”>Bring it in: Viewports, zoom and plugins

Lesson 3
Focus on the user: Tap targets, margins and font sizes

Lesson 4
Set it right: Redirects and canonicals

Google Videos for Mobile Website Design Considerations was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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