wireless design
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- denvergreenbud
When creating sites what consideration do you make and/or suggest to clients about people browsing from phones, PDA's, etc.
What dimensions? What type of content?
any example sites?
- Gucci0
I haven't yet had a client that would greatly benefit from this, but I'm sure the day will come.
Sounds interesting though.
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- Terminal270
Hi,
We tell most clients that by hand coding all the html and using CSS etc. That it is more lightly to work on mobile etc.
This is mostly true and seems to bring a smile to their face. I still don't really know what kind of people really *need* to have a site that worls on a mobile.Dimentions don't really come into it as far as i can see as the content wshould collapse to fit the size of the browser.
- denvergreenbud0
I just got a nokia e61. I am surfing quite a bit using it. I use the VOIP features quite a bit and am 100% psyched that I no longer have to lug a laptop on business trips.
I want to create a site for users of devices like this. I am sure that more and more people wil be getting their content with these things.
I am blown away and in the two weeks I have had the thing I already find it irreplaceable.
- RoomFive0
Tell them to fuck off! And that anyone that uses a mobile phone for anything other than being a telephone is a nob head!
*rant rant
- mimeartist0
i only ever do it when i need an address or telephone number or football score....
So I guess you just want to make sure landing pages degrade gracefully so that this is avaialble straight off
- denvergreenbud0
RoomFive do you use SMS Knobhead?
No. I want to start designing sites that are only going to be viewed by knobheads like me and roomfive.
- RoomFive0
lol. fair play denvergreenbud. i do for SMS of course, I wouldn't have any contact with girls without SMS ;)
sorry had a bad morning! had to vent! :) Just don't like all this camera, video, mp3 phone rubbish, and people constantly playing on their phones...
- UndoUndo0
flash has a number of mobile device templates - that might be a good start...and all of the devices have user-agents that can be used to identify them...
- UndoUndo0
sorry to give you a g link but there's alot of info out there
- denvergreenbud0
roomfive no offense taken, I get up on the wrong side every morning....
undoundo...I'll take any link...thanks for the effort.
- RoomFive0
thanks denvergreenbud... must remember to drink coffee and wake the hell up before I post on NT! :)
- shutdown0
it really depends on who you want to access the system and what type of device you're aiming at.
forget WAP shite
most phones these days can cope with normal HTML so just trim out the bulk and make a simple version of a site and it'll work
that's the way i did it anyway
- ender790
here are some articles about the mobile web in general:
- denvergreenbud0
I'm thinking of a super stripped down word press theme.
i'm targeting only pda/phone users.
thanx for the links shutdown.
....and of course always take the nt back and forth in the most positive manner...
sorry about the typos i'm in thailand and really drunk.
- denvergreenbud0
sorry ender79....thanx for the links