July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
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Chapter 11. Designing Websites for Mobile Devices
Web designers used to build web pages for the 800 x 600 pixel resolution of 15-inch monitors. Then, as large LCD screens became popular, most web wizards designed pages for monitors that measured 1024 pixels wide and larger. Today, the explosive growth of smartphones, like the iPhone and Android models, make it clear that designers need to craft sites for much smaller screens, too. A majestic, panoramic web page that looks beautiful on a 27-inch monitor may turn into a tiny, unreadable postage stamp on an iPhone.
You can accommodate the multitude of mobile browsing devices several ways. Some designers build separate, mobile versions of their sites (see Figure 11-1). Using server-side programming, these sites detect the type of device your visitor has and deliver a web page customized for that device. An iPhone web surfer, for example, will see the mobile version of a site, which provides a greatly simplified experience: a single-column design with most of the navigation elements removed, but with a prominent search box added. Of course, not all of us have the time to create two versions of a website, or the technical skills to program a server to detect a visitor’s browser.
Fortunately, Dreamweaver CS6 includes several tools that tackle the problem of mobile site design. The most straightforward of them uses CSS; CSS3 offers a feature called media queries that lets you check the resolution of a device (how many pixels wide a screen ...
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