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…
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 –…
“Installing” jQuery Mobile jQuery Mobile requires that you include several external files. This is the “Install” process. You will need to include your jQuery and jQuery Mobile external script files. You will also need to include an external CSS file for the theme. Your HTML pages will need to be formatted in a specific manner,…
When you design for mobile devices you have several questions you have to think about. Which devices am I designing for? (Smart Phones, Latest Smart Phones, 4G phones, Feature Phones, etc) What speeds will my users access the site at? How familiar are the people to using the device to surf on? Am I looking…
